5 Common Sources of Conflict (So You Can Prevent Them): Episode 156
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Relationships cannot be about avoiding conflict, because that only builds resentment in the long term. However, by knowing the common sources of conflict, you can take the actions to keep those topics from causing hurt and disconnection!
That is exactly what you will hear in this episode, the 5 common sources of conflict. Then you can help prevent conflicts when you see them coming, as well as repair from your argument hangovers faster!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.5 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same |
| 0:10.6 | team. |
| 0:11.3 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.4 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.8 | And this episode is about five common sources of conflict so you can prevent them. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, wouldn't it be nice. |
| 0:24.7 | From happening in your relationship. |
| 0:25.4 | How would you like to prevent conflicts from coming up, right? |
| 0:28.8 | Because it can sometimes feel as though they're coming out of nowhere. |
| 0:32.4 | It ruined a perfectly good day. |
| 0:34.8 | And so I know that many of you are looking for ways to prevent them. Now, |
| 0:39.4 | prevent is different than a void. I'm just going to say that. Yeah. We've had a number of people |
| 0:43.6 | share, well, Freeman's, that's exactly why I don't rock the boat. And I don't bring up challenging |
| 0:49.2 | conversations, which if you've heard any of our episodes only lead to you building resentment in the long term. |
| 0:58.0 | So when you avoid in the short term, you're only building up this pressure. |
| 1:02.1 | And you know what? |
| 1:02.5 | That's not a relationship where you have to suppress yourself. |
| 1:06.6 | You don't get to share your needs, new desires, which is a part of life. |
| 1:10.3 | That's how you expand. |
| 1:28.9 | And to be in a relationship where you say, well, I can't really say that. I'm not going to tell them that. That's not a relationship. Exactly. So we're going to go into five common sources here in just a minute. And I think all of them are going to be like, wow, that is something I hadn't thought of, or I really needed needed that reminder or that's exactly why we had that disagreement a few days ago. Before that, we have two fun pieces of news. |
| 1:36.5 | One, some of you saw on social media that we are actually pregnant. |
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