Hello and welcome to the Empower 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 of 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 this episode is talk about the seeds before they become weeds in your marriage. And you probably

already can guess what we mean by seeds and weeds. We're going to fully explain that, but I want

to start with a question and really think about this. How can you two be so intimately connected

if you can't talk about anything and everything. And we find so often with couples for varying

reasons that it feels like they're these topics that are off limits or they worry if I bring this up

or it's the wrong timing or I say it the wrong way. It's going to become a thing. They're going to

take it personally. It's going to become a conflict. And then I'm told, well, you shouldn't bring it up or

this is the wrong time. The thing is we have to be able to discuss even difficult things in a

relationship. That's a part of intimacy of being able to build a life together. And you're going to

hear us reiterate that. And so go ahead. And on the other side of that idea, I know there's

a listener out there, this probably would be me, is also thinking, well, what about over-communicating?

Do I, is this about now I have to talk about everything, right? Because, yes, you might say

there's a difference between men and women.

Women like to talk. So what about the male partner, for example, that says, well, I don't talk

that much or I don't need to share everything. And we really want to talk about also how to

identify what is a seed.

Yeah.

What matters?

What matters?

What could turn into a weed?

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