He Wants Time To Process, She Wants To Talk About It Now: Gretchen + Mike "He Said/ She Said On Communication"

EmPowered Couples with The Freemans

Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this new game show type episode called "HE Said/SHE Said"! In this type of episode, on the Empowered Couples podcast, you will laugh, be entertained, and relate to this couple as they find out how they see things differently in their marriage even when they love each other, live together, and have been together for years.

No matter how well you think you know your partner, you can see things differently AND often don't even realize! (remember the newlywed game, yup it's going to be like that!)

In This Episode:

You will meet Gretchen and Mike from Minnesota, who have been married for 13 years. They have decided to explore the area of communication within their relationship, as it's an area that they experience having bigger differences. They are willing to individually be asked the same questions around communication to then be surprised by how each answered these questions whether it be the same or surprisingly different. Welcome to the show "He Said/She Said"!

**Disclaimer: we by no means intend to exclude any type of relationship with the title, He Said/She Said. We just thought it was a fun, catchy name. Please include yourself no matter what type of a relationship you choose. Much love, The Freemans**

Game Show Questions Asked:

Each individually answer:

Who would you say is a better communicator?
Who do you think your partner would say is a better communicator?
What about communication feels challenging?
Is communication more about talking or listening?
Does either one of you dominate conversations?
Who initiates having difficult conversations more often?
Who is better at reconciling & repairing from a conflict?
Where or from whom do you feel you learned relationship communication skills?

Quotes:

"If it's something I realize will help him, and not actually hurt me, I'm becoming more open to any of his requests" - Gretchen.

"We got into a fight, and looking back all I needed to do was say that this wasn't a good time right now and ask for a different time later on when I could really receive what she was saying." - Mike

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Jocelyn Freeman here and welcome to this new game show type episode called
0:05.5	He Said She Said. Super excited for this because in this type of episode on the Empowered
0:11.3	Couples podcast, you will laugh, you will literally, LOL, you'll be entertained and really
0:17.2	relate to the couples as we really dive into a conversation with them about how they
0:22.2	see things differently in their marriage. Do you ever have those times where you see things a different
0:26.7	way? No matter how much you love each other, live together, you've been together for years,
0:32.1	you really can see things differently and often don't even realize that there's a benefit to seeing things
0:39.1	differently. So do you remember the newlywed game show? It's a great show to watch and this
0:44.8	is what the episode will be like. We'll be asking both of them questions separately and then
0:49.4	bring them back together to see how they each answered. It's very relatable, very funny. So in this episode,
0:55.2	you'll meet Gretchen and Mike from Minnesota, who have been married for 13 years. And they decided
1:01.0	in this conversation to explore the area of communication within their relationship. It's an area that
1:06.7	they have had bigger differences in their time together and they're willing to individually be asked
1:12.1	the same questions around communication to then be surprised by how each answer these questions
1:17.3	whether it to be the same or surprisingly different. So welcome to this he said she said episode
1:24.2	on the empowered couples podcast. Let's dive in.
1:35.6	All right. Well, welcome Gretchen and Mike. Thanks so much for being on the He Said She Said podcast. Thank you for having us. We're excited and a little nervous. I don't know what to
1:40.2	expect. But we're going to do it. And this is Mike's first time ever meeting us. So it's like,
1:46.1	hey, nice to meet you. Let's do this game show type of podcast episode and put our life on the line.
1:52.6	Well, you seem like nice people. So I have full trust. This is going to go perfect. Yeah, we'll see
1:57.6	what you have to say by the end of it. I'm curious for the audience to get to know you guys a little bit more. Where do you live? We live in Minnesota outside of the Twin Cities. So you're pretty cold right now. You sure am. Bundled up. And how long have you been married? Almost 13 years. Yep. This spring will be 13 years. Congratulations. How do you think you'll celebrate your anniversary? I don't know. We, I actually think I have a work trip that's like right after. Oh, no. It's my, it's my girl's trip that's on our anniversary. I haven't told you about this yet. Oh, surprise. Something to talk about.
2:35.8	I love that.
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