Hello and welcome to the Empowered 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, Aaron Freeman.

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

And this episode is titled Cou that do this one thing, repair from conflicts faster and more effectively. Well, I want to repair faster and more effectively. Please, Freemans, tell me the one thing. And I asked Aaron because he came up with this topic. I said, where did you get this from? And he goes, well,

from the failed attempt we had this weekend. You're giving it away a little bit because I am really

connected to this topic. I am surprised that we haven't actually went into this. It's a major,

major principle around conflict resolution. And I do want to say,

before we get into this, I realize a part of why we are so good at conflict resolution and

communication in general, besides that this is what we've given our life too, it is that we do this very, very often.

And even if it was coming from the subconscious, for whatever reason, we do this very well

until last week when I didn't, but it's very few and far between.

I know that everybody's going to be like, okay, you have to tell us what it is.

We will, but first I want to set the stage that repair, we're just going to say it over and over

until you have this memorized.

Repair is mission critical to your relationship.

It's something to master.

It's one of the top most important things

you need to become great at in a relationship because what we say and this is from our book the argument

hangover what you don't repair will build into resentment and you don't want resentment to be

lingering in your relationship so there is something to get into the repair process, which we've come up with the

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