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, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freemans. This episode is going to be one of the most exciting for me.

This is how your psychology helps or hinders your marriage, which is really going to be going

into perception and memory biases that we have.

Now, don't worry, we're not going to overwhelm you with psychological terms.

We could totally go all out with you guys.

However, we're going to make sure that the principles we go into, you see the practical application. You see how this shows up in your

relationship because that's really what is key, is that you can recognize how these are helping

or hindering your marriage. Because if you think about it,

in order to understand our behavior, our choices, our feelings within the marriage, we have to

understand how the mind works as a whole, right? Like just what we understand about how psychology

works, but then also understand

ourselves how does my mind work right because so as we go into these principles you might be like

oh gosh that one i'm really not doing great with that one you know and we all have our moments so

we really hope you enjoy today's episode.

Because here's the main takeaway.

It's not that you remember any of the terms that we say because if we were just to have

the podcast right at this level and say you shouldn't trust the way that you perceive

or how you remember things, then you could be like,

okay, sure, that's a good idea.

And then you leave and then you do the same thing that you do anytime

something comes up.

And what we usually do is we're just so sure that the way I remember an event

...