The Role of Emotions in Marriage & How to Better Hold the Space For Each Other: Episode 366
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Is feeling emotion within yourself something you welcome or try to avoid? What about when emotion is expressed by your partner, do you experience that as a sign of something bad starting up or as an invitation to listen? Emotion is at the root of relationships, it is what makes it satisfying and fulfilling as well as the starting point of conflicts.
So what is the role of emotion and does it have a real place in a relationship? In this episode you will hear the answer to this question as well as the common barriers and challenges to "holding space for" your partner's emotions? This is not a simple task so you will know what this "holding space for emotions" term really means and get practical tips for being better at this type of listening with each other. This can lead to more connection and emotional closeness, which is a fundamental aspect of a satisfying relationship over the long term.
Relationship Resources
If you haven't done our Level 2 "Rebuilding Us" Couples Challenge, we highly recommend doing that before the end of the year. We dive deeper into 10 foundation builders in a marriage, like emotional intelligence, the art of apologies, the needle-movers for each of you in the marriage, and more! You can look at both our Level 1 and Level 2 Couple's Challenges at MeetTheFreemans.com/links
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.0 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the |
| 0:10.1 | same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. And I'm |
| 0:14.3 | Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know as the Freeman's. And this episode is about the role |
| 0:18.8 | of emotions in marriage and how to hold space better for each |
| 0:23.3 | other. Emotions, they come up, right? And not only in our sessions with couples, and that being a big |
| 0:29.2 | source of what directs them towards communicating or having conflict, but what had us jot this down |
| 0:36.0 | to cover this week was a conversation that we had |
| 0:39.4 | coming back from a trip. So we had this incredible three nights, four days in Cabo, attending a |
| 0:46.6 | wedding from a couple that we've really built a friendship with and we were lucky enough to even do |
| 0:52.3 | some preparing for marriage, work with them. |
| 0:55.1 | And it was just this great week, this beautiful resort. |
| 0:58.3 | And we had a great time as a family. |
| 1:00.1 | We got a little time just the two of us at the wedding. |
| 1:02.9 | And we come back, right? |
| 1:04.1 | So all this good, we came back. |
| 1:06.6 | And the night after we had unpacked a little bit, we had to have a little chat. You know, I came, |
| 1:13.2 | I sat down on the couch and I was like, hey, like, I need to clear something up. And of course, |
| 1:18.9 | I made sure, you know, he's open to it. And we'll kind of reveal some of the conversation |
| 1:23.7 | throughout the episode as it's relevant. but it was really about how we were each |
| 1:28.7 | feeling. And even though nothing major happened during the trip, there were just little |
| 1:35.0 | irritations that were building up, that were having us start to be just a little bit more |
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