How to Empathize With Your Partner, Even When You Don't Agree: Jocelyn Solo Episode 176
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Coming off of last night's webclass on "Communication Mastery", many people were intent to bring more empathy into their relationship. The very next feeling however was "being empathetic is not easy when I don't agree with my partner."
This most likely is the case for you as well. Though being empathetic to our partner's experience is a true expression of love, it isn't easy especially when you haven't practiced it.
In this one-on-one episode with Jocelyn, you will hear how to bring more empathy to your partner so that you can be that true expression of love and be that example of a truly empowered couple!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. This is Jocelyn Freeman today and you're going to be |
| 0:05.3 | hanging out with me one on one as we have a chat about how to empathize with your partner even when you |
| 0:13.5 | don't agree. And I know in hearing that title, you're even thinking, but Jocelyn, it is hard to empathize with my partner when I don't agree |
| 0:22.6 | believe me I get it I'm human just like you and this is something that we are |
| 0:27.6 | ongoingly bringing our attention to and where this came from was we actually had our |
| 0:32.9 | web class last night on July 20th and the turnout and just the participation was incredible. |
| 0:40.5 | And there was this one segment when we were closing out a portion about listening to your |
| 0:45.2 | partner where we talked about empathy. And it seemed to really strike a chord because people |
| 0:50.5 | were writing in the comments a lot. I really could use, you know, more empathy from my partner |
| 0:55.6 | or I know I could get better at this, but it's so hard, you know, and a lot of different |
| 1:00.1 | remarks like that. And we realize that we often need reminders for these things that, quote, unquote, |
| 1:07.6 | seem simple, like you should empathize with your partner, but we forget and we |
| 1:13.3 | lose sight of empathy really for all human beings. You know, we can sometimes be hard on the people |
| 1:21.0 | in our life. We can be hard on ourselves. We can be critical. And so this episode will be a short one and the intention being a bit of a |
| 1:30.6 | motivator, a bit of a gut check and a reminder of what human beings really need and especially your |
| 1:39.5 | partner, which is empathy. And I'm going to talk in a minute about how to empathize with your partner even when you |
| 1:46.6 | don't agree. |
| 1:47.8 | But before getting into the how-to, I want to share why. |
| 1:53.2 | Empathizing with your partner, even when you don't agree, is the ultimate sign of love. |
| 2:04.2 | Yes, I know that's a bold statement, but you can say all day long, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you. But if you aren't willing to |
| 2:11.2 | empathize with your partner, then something is missing in the way that you love. Now, I'm not questioning that you don't love them. |
| 2:19.7 | I'm just saying that in the way you love, if empathy is not present, there's really something missing. |
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