Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast, where 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 you face.

I'm 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 about developing these four crucial and unexpected traits to be a consistently

great partner.

And I really wanted to have the word unexpected in this title because...

We got it in there.

Yeah.

As we were writing out these traits, I really was like, these really aren't the normal ones you'd think of.

Funny, hardworking, trustworthy, reliable.

We've talked about reliability on many podcast episodes.

You know that's key.

But actually, I think the ones we're going to go into, you wouldn't think of top of mind.

And we also use the word in the title, develop these

traits because it is something you cultivate, you practice, you put attention on developing,

personality or who you think you are as a person. Right? Okay.

So many good things in there.

It isn't something that is cemented in stone that is fixed.

There's a book called Personality Isn't Permanent.

And it's really true that, sure, there might be certain things that are going. Yeah, tendencies.

For example, I'm not like the funniest person ever, you know,

and that's something I've accepted about myself. Like I don't just like default to jokes or humor,

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