If Your Partner Has the Assertive/Inflexible "Communication Personality Type" : Episode 141
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 27 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/Inflexible 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 and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.4 | advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stand the same team no matter the challenge |
| 0:11.2 | that you face. I'm one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as |
| 0:15.7 | the Freeman's. And on today's episode, if your partner has the assertive, inflexible communication personality |
| 0:23.3 | type. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.3 | So the communication personality types, if you are a new listener, comes from our new book, |
| 0:29.6 | The Argument Hangover. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah, chapter 8. |
| 0:31.6 | Yep, entire principle where we go into how communication is not one size fits all. |
| 0:37.1 | And so it's really important that you will |
| 0:39.1 | understand your partner's communication personality type, as well as, of course, your own. |
| 0:43.7 | But by understanding your partner's type, you're able to avoid the tension, the resistance, |
| 0:49.4 | the misinterpretations. And if you haven't taken it yet, there's a brand new quiz that you can take so that you |
| 0:57.8 | don't have to guess what your partner's communication personality type is. So go to my couplesquiz.com. |
| 1:04.8 | It'll take you just a couple minutes to go through some questions, get your partner's type. So if you |
| 1:09.0 | haven't done that, go take the quiz, and you're |
| 1:12.8 | going to learn a lot today about your partner on this episode. This is just the start. We're going to do |
| 1:16.6 | each of the four types. And to your point, communication is not one size fits all. I think just |
| 1:22.6 | understanding that is going to be valuable in and of itself. Because as you're listening, do you get into seasons |
| 1:29.1 | with your partner where you feel we're just not on the same page? We just don't communicate the same way. |
| 1:35.0 | Some couples we've talked to say, this is something that we're not going to be able to get past. |
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