The Art Of Giving Appreciation And Being Able To Let Yourself Receive Appreciation From Your Partner Episode 103
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Yes we know that when you see the word Gratitude or Appreciation you think "I've heard that a thousand times"! Yet giving and showing your partner appreciation is one of the secret ingredients to a truly happy and connected relationship, one that barely gets it's deserved air time. The reason being it's never taken far enough. Appreciation is actually an art to be given so that it has a real impact and it's just as important that you allow yourself to receive appreciation from your partner!
In today's episode you will learn:
- Why appreciation is so important and why it's so easily forgotten about.
- The art to delivering appreciation in a way that will be more meaningful to your partner (which is not just appreciating what they DO)
- That you might actually be blocking appreciation and the feeling or connection because you are unable to receive it (either from your past, or from a belief you have about yourself)
Best Quote:
"You cannot receive what you do not believe about yourself" - The Freemans
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.7 | advice so you can communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter |
| 0:11.9 | the challenge that faces you and your relationship. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And today, we are talking about a topic I love because I feel like it's almost a secret. |
| 0:24.5 | People do not talk about this very much. And it is the art of giving appreciation and being able to let yourself receive appreciation from your partner. |
| 0:35.2 | Oh, big thing. I love that we're going to cover the giving and the |
| 0:38.2 | receiving. And you know what? I think this is such a pivotal thing for relationships, but largely |
| 0:44.6 | untalked about. And even for us, we've done almost, we've done over 100 podcasts and we just |
| 0:51.3 | thought to do this one. Yes. Just now. It's easy to forget about. That's the thing. |
| 0:56.0 | Things that are simple to do and impactful into your relationship are just as easy not to do. |
| 1:03.1 | That's right. And so where does this primarily come from or where do we get this idea? |
| 1:07.5 | Actually, so we just completed a group program. We had been working with a small |
| 1:13.1 | group over seven weeks. And the last session, because we've done a lot of work on triggers, |
| 1:19.2 | emotional triggers, conflict, communication, love opening your heart more to your partner. |
| 1:24.6 | And the last session, we made it about appreciation and gratitude |
| 1:29.0 | because especially all of you who listen, you're committed to self-development, relationship development, |
| 1:35.4 | and there's always this pursuit, right, of like, what's next? Growing. Always better, always better. |
| 1:40.7 | And especially when you begin self-development, you can start to be even a little bit hard on yourself and then also hard on your partner in a way, like, because you become so aware and it like, oh, I'm noticing this. I'm noticing this. All the things we don't like, right? And so we have to have appreciation and gratitude throughout the journey. Yeah. And it's so easy to forget. So it came from the group program. Yeah, for sure. |
| 2:06.8 | And if you are still with us, I'm not expecting it you tuned out. But when people hear gratitude, |
| 2:13.8 | Jocelyn, nowadays, I literally, it's like that. Like, I do not care necessarily about hearing about another gratitude challenge that you see on Facebook or yes we know gratitude is |
| 2:18.4 | important and today we're taking this much deeper than I've seen anyone else take this because it's |
| 2:24.0 | about the actual ways to give appreciation and the way you probably do it now that's actually not as |
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