Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast.

We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face.

I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman.

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's.

And this episode is about three things to acknowledge your partner for more often.

This is to prevent feeling taken for granted.

It doesn't feel good in a partnership to feel as though what you do, who you are is taken for granted after a while.

Or you don't feel seen, you don't feel appreciated.

And this episode is going to be about you, ideally both of

you are hearing this, acknowledging more. And we are talking about verbal acknowledgement. And where

this came from as a reminder is last night, Aaron got home from Austin, Texas after his

cryptocurrency event. And, you know, the evening went how it went. We were getting

things done, you know, had things to catch up on. And we reached this point where, to be honest,

we got in a little tense disagreement, right? And we're not going into that part of it,

because what really it came down to was we both had

been doing our own thing.

Like he had just given a lot of energy at the event and he was doing that for our family

and for our financial legacy.

And I was serving Sky and being with her and taking her of the home and managing the business

at home.

And so we were laying in bed

and I feel like what we both really needed was acknowledgement. Like we deep down needed to feel like

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