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 am one of your hosts here in Freeman.

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

And this episode is six keys to become more emotionally intelligent partners. And emotional intelligence

truthfully is one of my favorite topics. And I can't wait to define this for you and go into

these six keys. But we also want to make sure you know we are hosting a live and free marriage

web class next week, Monday, March 25th. So you only have this one episode to hear

before we have it. And that's why we wanted to mention it right at the beginning of this episode.

So if you go to online couples workshops.com, we'll also link that in the show notes. You will see

all of the information. Again, this is a free web class with us, but we're going to give you

critical skills and tools to communicate better, to de-escalate conflicts, making sure it's very

practical, and also how to get better with repair. Because truly in our sessions with couples,

we see that these are the three pain points that can impact your connection, your intimacy,

your ability to overcome challenges.

And so we're going to make sure it's very practical, actionable in your relationship.

We also really recommend having the three guides.

You'll see that as a discounted bundle option because we're going to be referring to several

sections in the guides.

You'll want to take notes and be able to use them even after the web class. So can't wait to see you at the live marriage web class.

Make sure you go and register.

With that, Aaron, will you define emotional intelligence first?

Yeah, the simple definition is your ability to identify and manage your own emotions as well as the

emotions of others. Now, I will put a caveat that you can't really manage your partner's emotions,

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