The 6 Human Needs: How They Are Fulfilled in a Relationship and What Happens When They're Not: Episode 196
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Every one of us humans has needs that need to be fulfilled to have a good life. Part of this search to fulfill these needs is what leads you to get into a relationship in the first place. You might think about survival type needs to begin with like food and shelter, but these are emotional needs that all of us seek to have fulfilled.
Since these 6 needs are emotionally based it can be easy to not pay attention to them which leads to it being easy to let them decline. Though it isn't immediately obvious, the lack of these needs is what leads us to all our actions. When they are low in a relationship, it can lead to taking small innocent actions that lead to bigger issues of trust and disconnection.
In this episode you will hear the 6 human needs that were made famous by a Tony Robbins TED talk, but you will hear examples of how this places out in your relationship. We give you two actions to take to figure out your top two needs and the way to make sure you are always on top of where your partner's level of fulfillment is at.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner. |
| 0:07.5 | So communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team. |
| 0:11.0 | No matter the challenge that you face, I'm one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.1 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freemans. |
| 0:17.3 | And this episode is about the six human needs and how they are fulfilled in your relationship, |
| 0:22.9 | as well as what happens when they're not. And I think this episode is going to be exciting for you |
| 0:28.4 | all because I cannot recall talking about these six human needs. And it's different than the |
| 0:34.2 | initial ones you may think of. Like you're going to think, oh, they're going to talk about needing to be understood. |
| 0:40.0 | They're going to need, you know, they're going to talk about the five love languages. |
| 0:42.9 | No, no, no. |
| 0:43.4 | This is different. |
| 0:44.3 | So you're really going to, I think, be excited by these. |
| 0:47.6 | And it came up from coaching sessions and really noticing in the last couple weeks that a big topic has been about not feeling completely fulfilled. |
| 0:59.2 | And they don't really always know why. |
| 1:02.1 | And of course, there's many reasons that would lead to a lack of fulfillment. |
| 1:05.3 | But this is one that we kind of noticed was there are some base human needs that sometimes aren't being met in a relationship |
| 1:12.6 | and then it can have an impact. |
| 1:14.6 | And the six human needs are not from us. |
| 1:17.6 | We first heard them from Tony Robbins' sort of famous TED talk, if you will. |
| 1:23.6 | Shout out to Tony. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah. |
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