Hello and welcome to the Empowered 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, Aaron Freeman.

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's.

And we got a good episode coming your way, navigating power struggles with your partner.

As odd as it may sound, I really enjoy talking about power struggles, and we have experienced a few ourselves.

Definitely, I've had to learn some of the skills we're going to be talking about today because I can at times want it my way, right?

So I really think this is gonna be relevant for couples

because we wanna be in a harmonious partnership,

not trapped in a power struggle.

So I also wanna note that I might sound

like I have a little bit of a radio voice.

My throat's just doing a funny thing today,

so just wanted to put that out there.

But let's define an easy way to think

about a power struggle. Wait a second. I want to define it. I said I was going to do it. You always do

it. You literally always do the intro. Like, no. I'm going to do it this time. So this is ridiculous.

So no, this isn't a mess up, right? This is a power struggle or it could be. So we'll see how that

came across. But we do want to note that a power struggle for us and how we've seen it in coaching

sessions, as we have seen it more frequent in the past couple of weeks, hence why we want to do

an episode on it. But there is a difference, right? Now, I'll actually let you go further with the definition. But there's a difference when

you just disagree on something. And then there's certain dynamics and certain contributing factors

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