Hello and welcome to the Empower 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 host, Aaron Freeman.

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

And the topic today is about feeling rejected by your partner when you share needs, feelings,

or even try to bring up a certain topic.

And here's what you can actually do.

So Aaron, are you saying that people who are even married,

maybe have three kids together, they've been together years.

You're saying they could fear being rejected by their partner? Yes. And stay with us right from the

beginning here because it's not the thing you think is actually happening. And I'm glad we're doing

this topic because my idea has been accepted. So this was Aaron presented this one. And it wasn't

rejected.

I could have been like, no, that's a terrible topic.

You know, I was meditating a few days ago on this topic and think about this.

Okay, so it might be a while for you, listener, to think back of when you were dating.

And it probably wasn't your current partner, but when you're in the dating phase,

when you feel rejected, which can be more straightforward, although people can ghost each other, right? So whether you were ghosted or the person just flat out rejected you, you're not my person,

then what happens is that the physical proximity

does get distanced. So you cut off communication with them. You don't see them anymore. So you have

this actual break. Now that's what we think of when being rejected.

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