A Fundamental Reason That Small Topics "Blip Moments" Turn Into Bigger Conflicts: Episode 371
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Every couple experiences this particular moment of decision making when a small topic can turn into a bigger conflict. Here you are, minding your own business, your partner says or does something that frustrates you… this is the moment that can keep it as a "blip" or turn the tides towards escalating into a conflict.
Surely you can look back at moments like these and think it would be so simple to keep the conversation constructive. So why do these moments get the best of us and go the way of conflict?
In this episode we dive into the topics of the subconscious, memory, and emotion that gets stored in our bodies and drives our reactions over simple reasoning that would keep us on the same team with our partners. You will hear 3 steps to take to better handle these blip moments and stay more on the same team together (especially when holidays are around the corner)!
Relationship Resources from the episode:
1) Get The Family Meeting Guide - either on its own here, or as a bonus for starting the Prioritize Us Challenge that starts Dec 1st.
2) If you want to get access to the discounted 3 Guide Bundle we mentioned, go to our Instagram (@meet_thefreemans) and send us a DM using the word "special". We will then send the link to this extended limited offer.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | 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. |
| 0:10.6 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:13.6 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.4 | And this topic is the fundamental reason that small topics that we're going to call blit moments |
| 0:23.0 | turn into bigger conflicts. |
| 0:25.6 | And this episode is coming out during a holiday week, at least here in the United States. |
| 0:30.3 | I know we have listeners all over the world. |
| 0:31.9 | But this time of year is full of holidays for all of us. |
| 0:36.2 | And that means that we can feel pulled in so many different |
| 0:40.1 | directions. And even though this is supposed to be a time where we slow down, and yes, there are |
| 0:45.1 | moments we get to do that. It also, for me, and I know a lot of people we talk to, it feels like |
| 0:50.2 | the pace picks up. Because you have even more on your calendar, you're invited to different |
| 0:55.4 | things, there's things you want to participate in and make special, and that adds not only fun, |
| 1:01.6 | but some stress. So that means that the holiday seasons are more of an opportunity for quick, |
| 1:09.6 | often seemingly unjustified reactions that happen between couples. |
| 1:14.4 | And it's not just the holidays, but the holidays just kind of magnify it. |
| 1:20.1 | And it doesn't mean that throughout the normal course of your life together that you won't |
| 1:25.9 | have these patterns that show up where you have |
| 1:29.1 | harsh and quick starts to a conversation that then quickly go to a bigger conflict. |
| 1:37.7 | And this can really be seemingly random. What we want to talk about is not necessarily the source, |
| 1:43.9 | but we really want to start |
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