Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern,

non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros,

fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your

host, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know it says the Freeman's.

And this episode is about preventing misunderstandings and conflicts. Now, things can often get

lost in translation from what's said to what's heard. So recently on some sessions, couples were kind of

making a similar joke to each other. They didn't even know it. But they were basically

alluding to, we need some kind of a Google Chrome extension where it's the Freeman

translator. This is what my partner is saying. What do they mean? And, you know, we're listening

to these conversations and we can see where couples get derailed, right? It might start off as a

productive conversation. They're starting to get somewhere. And then we see the moment

that something got lost in translation where it almost seemed like they were starting to speak

two different languages or having two different conversations. Now, because we are coaches,

we intervene and we say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay, let's translate.

This is what I heard your partner say, but it seems like this is how you received it.

And then they'll go, you're right.

It's like the telephone game when you were a kid, right?

If you remember playing that, it's like it started off as one thing, but then it all of a sudden

got changed as you went from person to person. So we're going to break this down in the episode

about some mistakes that the speaker makes in communication, some mistakes that the listener

makes, and then some tips for having more productive conversations and not getting so derailed.

Yeah, definitely. And some foundational things, hearing is not the same as listening.

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