Emotional Intelligence is Required For Good Communication: Do You Have These 5 Skills Mastered? Episode 381
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Raising one's emotional intelligence (EQ) is a critical factor in the long term satisfaction and maturity within a marriage. Without this, the depth of a couple's connection will be limited and small emotional disruptions will turn into bigger conflicts (and likely never address the root cause). This is a term you have likely heard of before in terms of marriage and other important relationships in your life. But it can often be too abstract and conceptual to be put into practice.
In today's episode you will hear 5 skills that build EQ. You will get a clear definition of each of these skills as well as the practical action to take to strengthen that muscle. These 5 skills do build on themselves and can be seen as sequential. So as you work on each of these, be sure you are completing each step before moving to the next. By listening to this episode you will have a clear understanding of how to raise your EQ and the benefit it will be for your relationship.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:04.3 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same |
| 0:09.1 | team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:13.7 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about emotional intelligence |
| 0:17.6 | and how it's required for good communication. And today we'll walk through |
| 0:22.2 | these five skills that we're asking you to think about. Have you mastered? Yes. And here's the thing. |
| 0:27.4 | That word mastered, it doesn't mean that there's suddenly a place you arrive and you are perfect. |
| 0:34.3 | Or you are just always in every situation practicing emotional intelligence |
| 0:40.0 | skills. Like anything in life, we can lose sight of it. We can maybe get a little bit too lax. |
| 0:48.7 | Emotional intelligence isn't an all or nothing thing. It is a skill. |
| 0:54.5 | We're going to go into the specific ones that you actually have to be focused on, refining, |
| 0:59.6 | honing those skills, just like I was like thinking about this, random things. |
| 1:04.4 | Let's say you were really good at video games growing up, but you haven't practiced in years. |
| 1:10.1 | Sure, you might be able to pick it up right now |
| 1:12.0 | and do decent. It doesn't mean that you'd be just as good as you were. Or let's say you're an |
| 1:16.5 | incredible, you know, you're incredible with an art or a certain sport. If you don't practice for a while, |
| 1:23.2 | you won't be the best that you've ever been. So emotional intelligence is the same way. |
| 1:29.4 | It takes focus. It takes practice. It takes honing in on these skills and recognizing when you |
| 1:36.2 | aren't as well. And you get off track. Yeah, I was just kind of playing on what you were saying |
| 1:41.6 | there. Did the video games get you? No, I was just thinking, you know, once you reach a certain level, |
| 1:47.8 | it's similar to just awareness about life as an individual human, |
| 1:52.2 | you always hear this term. |
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