Hello and welcome to the Empowered 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 hosts, Aaron Freeman.

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

This episode is how to hold yourself and your partner accountable

without being too critical. Yes. And this could be called mutual accountability, right? Like,

how can both of you be accountable? And this is building upon the last episode that we released

two days ago where we talked about the five things you need to take

ownership of, you need to be accountable for in your relationship for it to thrive. And as a

reminder, those five things are being accountable for your emotional state and energy, your

automatic triggered behaviors, your perception of your partner in the relationship,

agreements that you make, and making the changes you said you would make.

So great, here you are, you are doing that. That's the personal accountability.

So the next obvious question is, what if my partner's not doing that?

You know, how do you actually hold your partner then accountable

let's say to these five things when that's what you've taken on hey jocelyn i'm going to be

accountable myself to these things now i'm operating in my day and you're not doing that right so

what we wanted to do was first ask people on Instagram, what is it like for you right now,

maybe without listening to the last episode, when you do try to hold your partner accountable?

So Jolson, what were some of the responses we got?

Yeah, what we received back was that their partner was irritable

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