Lost in Translation From What's SAID to What's HEARD (Unpacking a Root Cause of Miscommunications): Episode 368
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Imagine a scenario where you and your partner are having a conversation. In the middle you begin to feel as if what you are saying is clear, but your partner doesn't seem to be getting it. You start to get frustrated, your tone or volume changes, so then they get annoyed or irritated and the conversation begins to escalate.
This episode is all about how the meaning of conversations can easily get misunderstood and misinterpreted. The longer you are in a relationship the higher chance there is of this happening. Now you do have two choices, you can keep trying to get your partner to understand in that moment, which leads to tension.
Or you both can take these 3 actions from this episode to better understand where these misunderstandings come from. It's a common and natural thing to happen, but it takes awareness and execution to keep it from persisting in your relationship.
Relationship Resources
The 30-day challenge and all of the guides that were mentioned can be found with our resources link here: https://www.meetthefreemans.com/links
- Be sure to take advantage of the Family Meeting Guide as you begin to refelct on your year and start to set your goals and intentions togther for the next year.
- You can get this guide as a FREE bonus for starting the Prioritize Us 30-Day Couples Challenge
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:06.4 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stand the same |
| 0:11.6 | team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. And I'm |
| 0:15.4 | Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is titled |
| 0:19.2 | Lost in Translation from what's said to what's heard. |
| 0:23.9 | This is where we're unpacking a root cause of miscommunications. |
| 0:28.2 | Speaking of communication, I might sound a little bit different, but I'm okay. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm on the up and up. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm getting well. |
| 0:34.6 | But I really wanted to cover this topic because it shows up so often in our |
| 0:39.1 | private sessions with couples, in our own conversations, in witnessing family members communicate. |
| 0:45.9 | And I think that the points we're going to make today will give you some new a ha's to either |
| 0:51.5 | think about individually or definitely talk about together. Now, before we get into |
| 0:55.8 | these points, a friend of ours brought up an interesting point. She's like, you have to tell |
| 1:00.4 | people about this. So a quick story is we were having, we do Taco Tuesday with our friends. And I asked |
| 1:06.7 | this question. I said, hey, do you guys like have an end of year practice where you do a check in and you debrief from the year as well as set intentions and get focused for next year, like a connecting exercise? And they're like, no, that sounds like a great idea. Do you guys have a template for that? And I was like, yeah, that's one of our main resources. And we were laughing about this. She's like, you have to tell people more. They may not |
| 1:28.7 | know that you have this. So that's what our family meeting guide is. It not only has our weekly |
| 1:34.6 | templates, which are just quick check-ins to make sure you're on the same page, proactively |
| 1:39.2 | communicate on a weekly basis. Then there's quarterly, a conversation to have four times a year that's different, |
| 1:45.0 | and then once a year. And coming up on the end of the year, we cannot recommend enough going |
| 1:50.8 | through the prompts that we have in our yearly template. So she told me to tell you guys, the family |
| 1:57.0 | meeting guide is a must get. And there's two ways to get it. You can get it as a solo product or you can get it as a bonus gift in our 30-day |
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