Logic vs Emotion: How to Balance Both in Communication: Episode 162
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
You know those moments when you're sharing your emotion, and your partner responds with logic? They might say "that's not how that happened, that doesn't make sense, or that wasn't my intention."
It can make you feel invalidated and misunderstood, which hurts because your partner is the one you should feel most understood by, right? You might feel that they don't listen to you and certainly that they don't understand you. Or even to the point where you feel that you just aren't on the same page.
Logic and emotion are both important in relationships and communication....but often at different times! It's important that you two discover how to balance both of them, and know when logic is needed vs emotional understanding.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.2 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:10.7 | no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:15.3 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. This episode is about logic versus emotion, how to |
| 0:20.3 | balance both in communication. This is is about logic versus emotion, how to balance both in communication. |
| 0:22.5 | This is so important because in relationships, one partner, perhaps it's you, perhaps it's |
| 0:28.8 | your partner, can lean more towards being logical. It doesn't mean they aren't emotional at all, |
| 0:34.7 | but they tend to be more logical. And then the other partner can lean more towards being emotional over logical. |
| 0:42.6 | So which one is it? |
| 0:43.4 | I'd love to even have you presence that. |
| 0:45.2 | Like which one of us tends to be more logical versus emotional? |
| 0:48.4 | And it's really not a male-female thing, though. |
| 0:51.9 | It might seem like that in most cases. It really is a masculine type of |
| 0:57.5 | quality and a feminine quality. That doesn't mean that males don't have more of a feminine, |
| 1:03.8 | emotional tie to events. Absolutely. And the thing is, if this is mismatched or you don't have awareness on this topic, it can create tension when you're communicating. |
| 1:15.2 | It almost feels like you're on different wavelengths or you're speaking different languages. |
| 1:20.6 | You know, we talk about having different emotional languages. |
| 1:23.3 | And that's what you don't want to experience is feeling like, gosh, when we communicate, |
| 1:28.6 | it's like we're just in two different conversations here. |
| 1:32.1 | And in fact, we had a really powerful session recently. |
| 1:35.5 | Again, we always keep names private and details. |
| 1:38.1 | But it was interesting because what happened was they both had the experience of feeling |
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