What to do When You Disagree on a BIG Decision: Episode 173
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It can feel frustrating or unsettling when you and your partner disagree on a big decision. For some couples, this can lead to making no decision and staying in a standstill for a while, which is also not ideal for you.
For others, it can lead to tense conversations, full blown arguments, and feeling like you're limited by the other person. But it doesn't have to go that way…
Whether it's parenting styles, financial decisions, where to move, when to have kids, which job offer to take, etc….you CAN make decisions in a way that feels better and leads to an even better outcome than you imagined.
In today's episode, you'll hear 6 Key Elements to Making a Big Decision Together. Dive in and you might want to take notes :)
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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 |
| 0:04.5 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the |
| 0:10.3 | same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. And I'm |
| 0:14.5 | Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And today is all about what to do |
| 0:19.3 | when you disagree on a big decision, something we know about. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | And this is actually our first episode recording in our new home in Arizona. |
| 0:28.6 | We finally arrived all of you and maybe we'll give you an update soon. |
| 0:32.6 | But let's give you context. |
| 0:34.6 | Where did this come from? |
| 0:35.6 | Well, we received DMs from you all every single day |
| 0:39.4 | and we got an incredible question about this. |
| 0:42.6 | What do I do? |
| 0:43.3 | My partner and I disagree. |
| 0:44.7 | It's a big decision. |
| 0:45.9 | And then they elaborated about how one of them |
| 0:48.6 | wanted to stay in their current state. |
| 0:51.4 | And the other wanted to move back, which happened to be to Arizona, and be back in their |
| 0:57.0 | community. And I was like, I relate to that because we also just did that. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, I said, are you talking about us? |
| 1:02.0 | I know. |
| 1:03.0 | That's us. |
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