The Biggest Communication Mistake That Turns Conversations Into Conflicts: Episode 258
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We are just off hosting the Couples Workshop in Arizona yesterday, and this was one of the biggest takeaways from the ½ day in person event. Communication seems easy when you only think of it as "verbalizing what you are thinking". But this often leads to the biggest communication mistake that turns simple conversations into an argument.
In this episode we will give you the inside look at the most effective communication tool that we teach at the Couples Workshop and in our coaching. By changing your very first sentence to your partner you can stay on the same team together and support each other in fulfilling your relationship needs and wants!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:04.7 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on |
| 0:10.0 | the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm |
| 0:14.2 | Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about the biggest |
| 0:19.5 | communication mistake that turns conversations into conflicts. |
| 0:24.5 | So you know those moments and you think, oh, this is just going to be, you know, an average calm conversation. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm going to bring this up. |
| 0:31.7 | And then bam, you're disagreeing and there's tension and you're getting frustrated with each other. |
| 0:37.0 | And you're like, |
| 0:43.5 | why? Why is it that just bringing up something so simple that I thought could just be a calm conversation is now this whole thing? Why is that? |
| 0:47.0 | And, were you asking me the question? No, like, just that's the thought. |
| 0:50.6 | And to acknowledge our voices might be a little bit sore as just yesterday we did our |
| 0:56.8 | couples workshop here in Arizona. |
| 0:58.9 | It was awesome. |
| 1:00.0 | I think you did amazing. |
| 1:01.7 | I loved the new content that we added. |
| 1:04.4 | I loved how you were in front of the room, how you interacted with everyone. |
| 1:08.0 | And at the end, we asked about some of the biggest takeaways and this answer |
| 1:13.0 | today that we're doing this podcast on is what we heard at the end from many people yeah and thank |
| 1:18.7 | you for that acknowledgement and you can't what I love about working with you and doing these workshops |
| 1:23.6 | is you do such a great job at sometimes being funny and playful and relatable. And then |
| 1:29.6 | you have these moments where you get in and you challenge people and you get people hyped. And |
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