Q&A- Answering Your Q's on Communication Challenges: Episode 153
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we're answering your specific questions submitted from Instagram. What was the topic for these questions? … Communication! This Q&A session is all about communicating better for the specific challenges that were submitted.
The questions we answer today are:
- When I have an emotional low, my wife tends to be dismissive...especially if it has to do with her. What can I do differently?
- Please explain why transparency/openness/honesty is so important.
- Suggestions to stop getting defensive immediately when someone brings up an issue?
- Currently I have trouble with my partner opening up to me, but he'll confide in his friends/coworkers. suggestions?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast where you get modern, non-boring relationship advice |
| 0:06.2 | for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:11.3 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:14.8 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:18.1 | And today, well, we're doing something a little bit different. Jocelyn, |
| 0:21.4 | what do we have in store today? So we're doing a Q&A, answering your questions on communicating better, |
| 0:28.4 | and these are from Instagram. So I was excited. I put up an idea for us on behalf of the Freeman's, |
| 0:34.7 | and I said, what do you guys think if we did our second episode |
| 0:38.0 | answering your specific questions off the cuff, non-scripted, what comes to us in the moment? |
| 0:45.2 | And a ton of you said, love the idea. And then we asked for submissions and got a ton right away. |
| 0:50.6 | And some that we're going to be able to answer today and some that we have noted |
| 0:54.5 | for future themes because we'll always do a theme. You know, like this week is going to be on |
| 0:59.1 | communicating better. And then another we might be like financial challenges. Another one might be |
| 1:04.1 | on like boundaries and agreements. So there will be themes to these Q&As. I think it's going to be |
| 1:09.2 | fun. And I'm actually excited to hear what comes to you off the cuff. Like we didn't plan our answers to these Q&As. I think it's going to be fun and I'm actually excited to hear what comes |
| 1:11.2 | to you off the cuff. Like we didn't plan our answers to these. So should we just jump in? |
| 1:15.9 | It's almost like a live coaching session. It kind of is, right? Live-ish, I guess. Questions we got |
| 1:20.8 | ahead of the coaching session. Right. So let's jump right in. Aaron, I'll have you start on this one first. |
| 1:28.3 | And by the way, I had to paraphrase some of these because some of you even sent a lot more detail for them. |
| 1:34.3 | So this is the paraphrase version for this one. |
| 1:37.3 | When I have an emotional low, my wife tends to be dismissive, especially if it has to do with her. |
| 1:45.1 | What can I do differently? |
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