If Your Partner Has the Reserved/Inflexible "Communication Personality Type" : Episode 143
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/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 |
| 0:05.6 | advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter the |
| 0:10.9 | challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as |
| 0:15.8 | the Freeman's. And on this episode, we are continuing the series. This is number three. |
| 0:26.7 | If your partner has the reserved inflexible communication personality type. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.6 | So if you have seen the other episodes, we're covering each of the four types, right? |
| 0:33.6 | There's four communication personality types. |
| 0:38.5 | And this one is going to especially resonate if when you took the quiz, because we do have a quiz to go with this, by the way. It's officially out there. Yeah. And if you also read it |
| 0:43.7 | in our book, the argument hangover, we have an entire chapter dedicated to the communication |
| 0:48.5 | personality type. So perhaps you read about it in the book or you heard about our quiz at my |
| 0:53.4 | couplesquiz.com. So even if you |
| 0:55.6 | started to listen to this, go verify your partner's communication personality type by taking the |
| 1:01.0 | quick quiz, right? Mycouplesquiz.com. And the reason that these four communication personality |
| 1:07.6 | types exist is because communication is not one size fits all. |
| 1:12.9 | Right? It's not like a sweater that can fit everyone, even though that doesn't really exist, |
| 1:17.4 | but they call it one size fits all. The communication isn't that way as well. And even if you hear |
| 1:23.2 | communication is the key to a relationship and you hear about all these great ways to listen to each other. |
| 1:29.6 | You still can wonder, well, why doesn't my partner communicate exactly like I do then? |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah, and that can lead to two things depending on the season that you're in. |
| 1:38.0 | If you've been together and you're married, all of a sudden it seems like why can't we get this thing implemented? |
| 1:44.2 | Why aren't the changes happening? |
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