Throw Out Your Idea of One Being Right & Wrong Then Your Relationship Will Thrive: Episode 276
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Communication should seek to connect rather than disconnect. When you get to a place of one being right and one wrong then you are just creating the environment of disconnection. This isn't the feeling you really want in a relationship, and you certainly do not come up with the best ideas for action that best serve the relationship itself.
In this episode, you will learn how to keep yourselves from getting caught in this common dynamic of feeling like one person is right and the other is wrong, which can lead to disconnection and a lack of creativity in solving relationship issues. You will gain insight into the importance of understanding and accepting the impact on the other person before explaining your intent.
The episode will also address why it's difficult in the moment to understand and accept the other person's experience and will provide solutions to help you transform these dynamics in your own relationship. You will discover tips on how to navigate disagreements without causing further damage to your relationship.
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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 |
| 0:05.7 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and |
| 0:11.2 | stay on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:16.0 | And actually, Jocelyn will not be joining us today, as she has not been able to even speak the last two days she is resolving |
| 0:22.7 | a biological conflict which for those of you that know german new medicine shout out to that |
| 0:27.8 | but that's a whole different other topic today this episode is about throw out your idea of one |
| 0:33.1 | being right and wrong then your relationship will thrive. And some background on this, you know, |
| 0:39.5 | this dynamic is one that we come across a lot in our work and our coaching with couples. |
| 0:44.7 | And overall, communication should seek to connect rather than disconnect. So if you look for places |
| 0:52.8 | in your relationship where your communication |
| 0:55.3 | is creating any sort of disconnect versus connection, that's where you want to look to implement |
| 1:00.5 | a new skill or be more effective in that area. Because when you get into a place of one of you |
| 1:08.0 | being right and setting up the other person to be wrong, then you just create an |
| 1:13.4 | environment of disconnection. So this cannot be an effective way to communicate. And this isn't the |
| 1:20.9 | feeling you want to have in your relationship. And you certainly do not come up with the best |
| 1:27.3 | ideas for action moving forward |
| 1:30.0 | or that serve the relationship itself when one of you comes out as the winner and one of you |
| 1:35.8 | comes out as the quote unquote loser and some examples of this you know usually there is |
| 1:41.7 | probably some little tension, some small disagreement. |
| 1:46.2 | And then one of you will say something about the order of events isn't correct in what your |
| 1:52.6 | partner is saying, which is like there's a difference between what you think happened versus |
| 1:58.4 | didn't happen versus them. |
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