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 in 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 Freeman's.

And this episode is about how to create emotional safety so any topic can be brought up.

And that emotional safety piece has actually been verbalized by many people that we're talking to

on our sessions. Like they're like, I want to feel emotionally safe, but I don't. And it's coming

from men, women. Like it really is coming from all different types of

partners. And typically it's around a specific conversation or topic, right? Yeah, it's like a subject

they feel they can't bring up. Or I can't ever bring up this emotion. You know, this emotion

tends to trigger you. If I'm angry, you can't be with that. If I'm sad,

you can't be with that. So it's like there's certain topics or emotions that are like a no-go.

And that's obviously not ideal for your partnership. And then we put up a poll on Instagram

stories yesterday with three different podcast topics. And this one by far had the most

votes. So it's obviously striking a chord for how maybe many of you feel or what you're

recognizing within your relationship. And this is something we all can work on. We can all

work on creating more emotional safety. And there are times where even

if you're on the self-development track, you might find yourself unconsciously getting defensive

when your partner's emotional or unconsciously trying to fix it. So we also fall into our own

patterns sometimes and we aren't perfect at always embracing each other's

emotions. Yeah, and I think more so probably that you feel unsafe. So of course there's your

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