The Most Critical Step to Repair From Conflicts is Also the Hardest Thing to Do (plus, the surprise resource finally announced!): Episode 202
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A NEW, SURPRISE (and FREE) Resource announced on this episode!
The way you two repair after a conflict will either lead to emotional baggage or emotional healing and bonding. The thing is, it can be hard to set aside the ego and focus on repair, especially when you also feel hurt about some things said and done during the argument.
This episode focuses on the MOST critical step to repair (of the 5 total), which also tends to be the hardest.
But by focusing on this step we share, you WILL resolve things faster, and move towards emotional healing. Tune in for this critical step to take.
Relationship Resources:
YOU GET EARLY ACCESS to our brand new (and free) WebClass on:
The 5 Steps to Fully Repair After an Argument So You Reconnect in Minutes (instead of hours, days, weeks). GO HERE TO SIGN-UP AND WATCH.
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 advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team. No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about the most critical step to repair from conflicts, which is also the hardest |
| 0:21.6 | thing to do. |
| 0:22.6 | No big deal. |
| 0:23.6 | We're just going to start with the hardest step of them all. |
| 0:26.6 | Well, in general, repairing from conflict, I would say, is the most important topic that we |
| 0:32.6 | have covered or could cover. |
| 0:34.6 | Agreed. |
| 0:35.6 | And we've talked from time to time about what really makes you a great partner. |
| 0:40.7 | And of the many possible answers, really the biggest thing it comes down to, we believe, is how you fight. |
| 0:49.1 | And there is one particular aspect that I personally want to dive into because this one thing is really honestly the hardest thing to do. |
| 0:57.9 | It is a hard thing to do. |
| 0:58.9 | But it's the most critical. |
| 1:00.2 | It is. |
| 1:00.8 | It's so critical. |
| 1:01.9 | And conflict you've heard us say before you guys is not something to avoid. |
| 1:06.5 | We can tell you this 100 times and probably still need to hear it as a reminder. |
| 1:10.7 | Avoiding conflict in the short term builds resentment in the long term. |
| 1:15.1 | So you hear us talk about the goals around conflict and one of the goals which we're going to be |
| 1:19.6 | talking about today is the repair process to repair faster and better. |
| 1:26.8 | And this step that we're going to go into is the hardest |
| 1:29.5 | step of them all and the most important to really make sure it's resolved. Well, if you didn't |
| 1:34.3 | catch that, there's two things because you said them kind of in the same sentence. You can't avoid, |
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