If Your Partner Has the Assertive/Flexible "Communication Personality Type" : Episode 142
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We're sure you've had moments that you are not communicating well with your partner. All of us have then thought to ourselves, "why can't you communicate like I do"!
But communication is not one-size-fits-all and you might have a different "Communication Personality Type" than your partner.
[Side note- if you haven't taken the Quiz to find out your partner's "Communication Personality Type," take that FREE QUIZ HERE]
By knowing your partner's type, you will better understand how they communicate and how you can better interact with them….so you can prevent unnecessary tension and disagreements.
In this episode you will get:
- The traits of the Assertive/Flexible partner
- Mistakes they can unconsciously and unintentionally make in their communication
- Mistakes you can make in trying to communicate with them
- What you can do differently
- How to communicate better in just 5 hours, instead of 5 months
Resources For Your Relationship:
- Take the Couples Quiz to find out your partner's "Communication Personality Type"
- Use the coupon code [podcast25] to get $25 off your seats for the next Couples Workshop here
About Us:
We're The Freemans, your go-to couple for authentic and actionable relationship advice. Send us your relationship questions for the show with a DM on Instagram. As you listen to the episode, tag us on an IG story and let us know what you loved.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Empower Couples podcast, where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.7 | advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter the |
| 0:10.9 | challenge you face. |
| 0:11.8 | I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:13.4 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.6 | And today, this episode is about if your partner has the assertive, flexible communication |
| 0:23.8 | personality type. |
| 0:24.9 | And the communication personality types come from our new book, The Argument Hangover, |
| 0:29.1 | which you all are reading right now, which is awesome. |
| 0:32.2 | And we also came out with a new quiz to get an accurate result for what your partner's type is, right? Because you have to |
| 0:39.5 | understand your partner's communication to be able to communicate better as a couple. And so if you |
| 0:44.2 | haven't taken the quiz yet, go to my couplesquiz.com. It takes two minutes, get that. And it's going to |
| 0:51.0 | be about better understanding how your partner tends to communicate. |
| 0:56.2 | That's exactly why we came up with the four types in the first place. This is the second one in |
| 1:01.0 | the series now. And the whole point again is because communication is not one size fits all. |
| 1:09.4 | You know, have you gotten into a place or a season in your relationship |
| 1:12.7 | where you think that your partner is just not communicating the best way they could? |
| 1:19.0 | Like you, right? Because what is the best way? Like you. Like you. You do it. Right. So you can |
| 1:25.1 | start to think that, well, how are we're just not seeing things the same way. |
| 1:29.2 | If you're early on in a relationship, this can also be a place where you feel like we're not a match. |
| 1:34.6 | But here's the thing. |
| 1:35.9 | It's not about trying to get them to communicate like you, right? |
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