If Your Partner Has the Reserved/Flexible "Communication Personality Type" : Episode 144
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 25 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 Reserved/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 Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.9 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stand the same team |
| 0:11.9 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:16.4 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is the last in the four-part series of your |
| 0:21.9 | communication personality types if your partner has the reserved flexible communication personality type. |
| 0:28.8 | So you probably have seen or listened to some of the other episodes with the different types, |
| 0:33.9 | right? There's four of them that your partner could be falling into. And the whole |
| 0:37.7 | purpose behind understanding your partner's communication personality type is so that you don't have |
| 0:45.0 | recurring tension, frustration, miscommunications, and even taking the way they communicate |
| 0:51.3 | personally. You can have more insight and awareness to how you can make |
| 0:55.5 | slight adjustments to better work with their type. |
| 0:59.4 | And the reason that this exists is because we figured out that communication is not one-size-fits-all. |
| 1:07.7 | It's not. |
| 1:08.6 | It's not one-size-fits-all. |
| 1:10.4 | If you read all these different books and you see online and you hear everyone say that |
| 1:14.6 | communication is the key to a relationship and you're like, yeah, but my partner doesn't do it the exact same way that we learned or, you know, they did for a week and then they went back to their old patterns, it's because they have certain defaults. |
| 1:28.2 | They have certain default styles of communicating and what's natural to them. |
| 1:33.4 | And the whole goal here isn't to change your partner's communication personality type. |
| 1:38.6 | It's so that you understand it. |
| 1:40.6 | And ideally, they understand themselves as well. |
| 1:47.0 | Just with that, you should feel relief. Right. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, if you're married and have been together for a while, |
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