How Emotional Intimacy Differs For Men and Women: Episode 290
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The obvious statement is that men and women differ in how they emotionally connect. But the actions one can take to close the gap between how men and women connect is not as practical. Couples get stuck in the trap of "I just don't connect the same way as my partner".
In this episode you are going to hear 3 different ways that men feel emotionally connected and 3 different ways for women. No matter how different you think you and your partner are in this area of connection, you can use one of these ways to better connect and be in harmony with your partner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.2 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay |
| 0:10.4 | on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your hosts, Jocelyn Freeman. |
| 0:15.3 | And I'm Aaron Freeman. And you know us as The Freeman's. And today we are covering how emotional intimacy differs for men and |
| 0:23.8 | women. Excited for this topic, Aaron. It's going to be a good one. We have to first probably talk |
| 0:28.3 | about what emotional intimacy really is. I think you get the sense from a high-level perspective, |
| 0:35.9 | but we would say it's described as closeness. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a feeling like we have, I would say, access to, |
| 0:44.5 | or I would say even that you understand the inner world of each other. |
| 0:51.4 | And it goes beyond the superficial, right? |
| 0:53.5 | So part of life, of course, as we are |
| 0:56.2 | adulting and things become more complex, we do have to manage life, right? Talk about, all right, |
| 1:01.4 | are you going to the gym? Okay, I'm going to take our kid to school. Okay, they've got soccer on Tuesday. |
| 1:06.2 | Oh, we have our family barbecue Thursday. You know, you have to manage life. You have to talk about things that |
| 1:11.2 | are needed, the schedule, dinner, et cetera. Of course, that's a part of it. However, you're also in this |
| 1:18.0 | romantic partnership for emotional reasons. Yes, you want physical security. We want, you know, |
| 1:25.1 | safety. We want to have someone to manage a home with, but we also |
| 1:28.7 | want someone that we can connect on a deeper level with, not just physical intimacy, but emotional |
| 1:35.9 | intimacy. Now, there's a difference between men and women, and you might think that that's |
| 1:42.5 | obvious, but we want to go into more specific details here |
| 1:46.4 | and I'm just trying to get honest from my experience we have talked to a few people now so |
| 1:53.0 | pulling from some of that and by a few he means like thousands of couples I was being facetious |
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