This is the Root Cause of 99% of Frustrations and Arguments: Episode 218
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
You know those moments when you're frustrated or disappointed in your partnership? Have you thought about what the ROOT cause of the frustration is? Don't worry, most people we talk to haven't identified it, which is why we're covering it on today's episode.
This principle will be ESPECIALLY helpful if you tend to run into the same thing over and over again or you feel like "we'll never see eye to eye on this."
By the end of this episode, you will know exactly what to reflect on personally AND discuss to help eliminate most upsets.
Also, schedule a Relationship Breakthrough Session with us. We take you through our powerful expectation process and you will know how to handle things differently together. Read the details and book one of the 5 spots HERE.
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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 |
| 0:05.1 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:10.3 | no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:14.5 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about the root cause of 99% of |
| 0:19.5 | frustrations and arguments in your relationship. Are cause of 99% of frustrations and arguments in your |
| 0:21.3 | relationship. Are you saying 99% of the frustrations in a relationship is |
| 0:27.0 | going to be discussed in this episode? Yes. Now we don't have the scientific data |
| 0:33.4 | 99% but it is the root cause almost all of the time of what is actually causing these frustrations and arguments. |
| 0:43.3 | So think for a moment, how easy and free-flowing would your relationship be if you never got upset or frustrated? |
| 0:51.3 | Now, is that really possible? Maybe not. Probably not because we're humans and that's |
| 0:56.5 | kind of just part of the human experience. But whether or not it's possible is started to make us |
| 1:01.5 | really think and kind of drill down within these challenges as to, well, what's the root cause of that? |
| 1:08.1 | Like what's the root cause of upsets, frustrations, and arguments? |
| 1:11.7 | And it led to us doing research, you know, really diving into this over the years. And it is |
| 1:16.9 | what we see all the time. And Aaron, you want to do the grand reveal. Well, it really is one thing. |
| 1:20.8 | So by you knowing this one thing, you really do dramatically decrease the amount of upsets |
| 1:27.1 | and frustrations. |
| 1:28.8 | So what is the answer here? |
| 1:30.0 | Well, I want you, as a listener, just to think. |
| 1:32.1 | I mean, what is it that causes you to feel upset, to feel frustrated, or we might say |
| 1:38.4 | disappointed? |
| 1:40.4 | Well, all of the time it is your expectation. |
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