"Should I Bring This Up Now?" Picking the Right Time For Important Conversations: Episode 159
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Is this something you have ever said to yourself "should I bring this conversation up to my partner right now?" We know the answer is almost certainly YES, we all have thought this. Most of the time it's when we have an important topic that we want to talk about, or we think it will potentially cause a conflict.
HOWEVER conflicts are not always from the subject of a conversation, but how and when it is brought up. It can turn out to be a conversation that you were excited to have, and all of a sudden it turns into a disagreement. How can this be?
Today we talk about just that! In this episode you will hear 3 parts to a conversation that you must add, so that conversations can be had at the right time… for both of you!
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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 |
| 0:05.6 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:11.5 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:16.4 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And today's episode is a thought that you think to yourself. |
| 0:21.6 | Should I bring it up now? |
| 0:23.6 | Picking the right time for important conversations. |
| 0:26.6 | And I'm sure some of you are going, yes, I need to be better at this. |
| 0:29.6 | I maybe don't pick the best time. |
| 0:32.6 | And this was a big point of questions yesterday. |
| 0:35.6 | We did a web class covering three communication skills to |
| 0:40.0 | overcome any challenge. And it was a packed house. People couldn't even get in because the |
| 0:44.6 | Zoom room reached its limit. And I know some of you are having FOMO. Don't worry. At the end, |
| 0:50.2 | we'll share some resources for you so that you can get more of these tools. |
| 0:54.8 | But after we did our training, there was a lot of like asking more about the timing, |
| 0:59.8 | the approach, how could I bring this up in a better way? |
| 1:03.0 | And it's really important to ask yourself if you could get better at selecting the right time for conversations. |
| 1:11.2 | And let me say this. |
| 1:12.1 | What we really saw in that is this main point here. |
| 1:17.0 | One of the biggest reasons that conversations turn into conflicts, and once again, if this |
| 1:22.8 | is you, probably why you have this question in your mind, should I bring this up now, |
| 1:27.9 | is because you think it could cause a conflict. So often you probably think, well, I'm not |
| 1:35.7 | going to bring this up because it can cause a conflict. However, it's not just the subject |
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