Express Yourself But Make Sure You're Not Relying on Your Partner For THIS: Episode 133
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Being able to fully express yourself is one of the most important aspects of being in a relationship. This is what allows you to be known by and connected with your partner! This is what leads to a healthy and loving relationship.
However there is one thing to this, that could have you be dependent on them for. It will also lead to diminishing your own ability to self-sooth and self-regulate your emotions.
On the other hand, by not relying on your partner for this one thing, you will feel more freedom, emotionally steady, and safe for your partner to more vulnerably express themselves to you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, |
| 0:03.9 | non-boring relationship advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same |
| 0:09.2 | team no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.1 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.1 | And welcome to this episode about express yourself, of course. We want you to to do that but make sure you're not |
| 0:23.5 | relying on your partner for this yeah big topic and you know this comes always our |
| 0:29.6 | podcasts come from us having conversations with couples but this one in particular |
| 0:33.1 | interestingly came up during the couples challenge that we ran last week and |
| 0:38.1 | we were talking about communication we were talking about knowing your |
| 0:41.3 | communication personality types and this kind of nuance came to light which was |
| 0:46.4 | people go all right well what if I express myself but I don't get the reaction |
| 0:51.8 | that I'm hoping for right like? Like I express my needs. |
| 0:55.8 | I express my feelings, but then my partner says or does the thing I don't want them to do. |
| 1:01.1 | So that's where it came from, and I'm excited to dive in. |
| 1:04.1 | And it is, to me, one of the top sort of hardest things to end up doing in relationship, which of course gets |
| 1:13.7 | mirrored into life. I do have idea of what the hardest thing to do in life is. There's a podcast I did a few |
| 1:19.4 | episodes ago, but essentially expressing yourself in a relationship. Well, why? Because to be in a |
| 1:26.5 | relationship, right, is to be known by another. |
| 1:30.7 | To be fully accepted for who you are, your nuances, your style, your thoughts, your ideas, your |
| 1:39.2 | energy. I mean, that's really a part of love is having this partner that fully accepts you and |
| 1:45.1 | you're able to express and share such that you become more and more known by your partner. |
| 1:50.7 | So that's really the main thing about relationship, right? |
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