Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship

advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stand the same team no matter the challenge

that you face. I am Aaron Freeman, your solo host for today, as yes, this is one of the episodes

that I do specifically for men. And I think this will also benefit the women that are listening

to help their men in this case around this topic of four steps to help men identify what

they're feeling and be comfortable to share it. This is a really important topic for me,

so thank you all for tuning in.

And I will say as I start this episode that early on in our relationship, I did not have

the ability to really understand what I was feeling, let alone share it.

And this is something that I do hear pretty often from men, especially when we had done in-person

couples workshops and I would be talking to men after, as well as just out in life.

This is something common I hear.

And so for women specifically, is this something that you hear from your partners?

I just don't know what I'm feeling.

And for those of us, men and women, when we don't know what

exactly we're feeling, there's really two options to either shut down and say nothing at all

or to outwardly try to push our partner away because we're kind of in a confused, vulnerable place, but we don't really

know why. So let me tell you a story just as we start here. Back when I was 18 years old,

I have found out that my brother was going to be having a kid. And now he's younger than me. He's

16. He was in high school and not yet married.

And for some reason, when I found this out and actually found it out from my dad calling me,

it really affected me. And in that moment, I had never felt so much emotion. I started to cry.

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