Hello and welcome to the Empower 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 on the same team no matter the challenge that you face.

I'm one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman.

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

And today we're talking about three underrated traits of a great partner.

So are you committed to being an average partner or one that they kind of can tolerate and survive with?

If you looked at some of your actions, it might seem that way.

No, if you're listening to this podcast, we would bet that you are committed to being a great partner. Even if you can be honest with

yourself and kind of say, well, I maybe haven't been the best partner in the last several

months or a year, you're here listening to this because you want to continue to become this. And

you know, it can be so easy as human beings when we are in a long-term relationship,

and especially for those of us who are married, it can be easy to kind of be like,

I got you locked in, you know, and kind of unconsciously put in less effort, kind of coast,

and it's almost like we can just become ordinary and do less than

our best. Wow. As you were saying all that, I was thinking about even my own experience, and it's

kind of like we don't really notice the beliefs that are getting built up. And I think part of what

you mean and what we mean by putting in less work is also about putting in less attention

towards where you're being more passive and you're just letting kind of the circumstances,

again, without you knowing, kind of create new beliefs.

And if you're in personal development, new kind of filters about your partner,

that then can seem as if they take on your actual traits.

So that's where this was really getting tied in.

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