Repairing Resentments- Big or Small, They Need to be Dealt With: Episode 231
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
You probably don't actively think "I have some resentment building up toward my partner". Resentment is a little like putting small amounts of sand into a backpack over time. You might not notice the weight of the sand in the beginning. Then as time goes on, you might not even notice that the backpack now weighs 50lbs because you've gotten used to it over time.
But resentment is a very unhealthy attitude and feeling toward your partner that will lead to a relationship ending if not dealt with. OK, so even if you are not there yet, the underlying feeling of resentment creates a block to intimacy, fulfillment, and making any progress in your relationship. It can feel like you've been wronged, a sense of bitterness, or being checked out.
In this episode you will hear about how to better identify the early signs of resentment building as well as the empowering way to release, let go, and be able to create a new future of connection and being a team.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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 stand 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 us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about repairing resentments, big or small, they do need to be dealt with. |
| 0:23.4 | I know resentment is not a sexy word. You're not like, yeah, let's talk about resentment. |
| 0:28.6 | Let me get in there and repair my resentment. You know, we just finished a sex and intimacy series. That's a fun topic to explore. However, even though resentment isn't |
| 0:39.6 | the most fun topic to look at and feel and explore within yourself and your relationship, |
| 0:46.0 | it must be done. And in this episode, we're going to break down, you know, what does resentment |
| 0:51.1 | really feel like? Because sometimes it can almost be dormant beneath the surface. |
| 0:56.3 | What it does within your partnership, like what is the impact of letting it be there, |
| 1:01.6 | sources of it, which came from so many of your submissions, |
| 1:05.4 | and what are some things you can do to deal with it, repair it, |
| 1:10.6 | not let it be impacting this partnership |
| 1:13.1 | that could be even more amazing. |
| 1:14.8 | We'll start with a quote that you probably have heard at one time, but it's not that often. |
| 1:20.1 | So resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. |
| 1:25.7 | Okay, tell me again. |
| 1:26.6 | So you're saying resentment is like poison. |
| 1:30.5 | Say it again. |
| 1:30.9 | It's like drinking poison. |
| 1:32.1 | Drinking poison. |
| 1:33.7 | And yet you expect the other person to die. |
| 1:37.3 | Isn't that so true? |
| 1:38.3 | It's got a very Roman or like early ages connotation to it. |
| 1:42.6 | It's like we don't get people poison to try to kill them |
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