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 in 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 what your

kids need to witness when it comes to conflict.

And I promise that the principles we share today will motivate you and inspire you whether

you have kids or not. And we wanted to dive into this for a couple of reasons. One, I started to

share with you on last podcast episode about triggers, which by the way, the feedback has been incredible.

If you haven't listened to that episode, highly recommend it.

But I was really sharing at the beginning this passion that I have personally, Aaron does

to do a different degree, but because I'm a child of divorce, I feel this burning passion to break cycles from what I

witnessed growing up and truly model to our daughter healthy conflict. And then this isn't just

something that motivates me. We hear on our sessions all the time, and it just showed up on a

session a couple days ago where a parent started to tear up and said, you know, of course this is

affecting us in our marriage, but really where this breaks me is seeing our kids starting to repeat

the same patterns. I can already see it in them, even starting at five years old.

And that is like just what can just get to us as parents deep down. And I want to continue to call

you forward and up to say, you know what? We have to make these changes. Like this isn't something we should

try to work on. Oh, I'm going to, oh, honey, I'll like try to get a little better. No. Like this is from this

point on, you're listening to the Freeman's. It is time to make real changes and be consistent

because the stakes are really high.

And as I said in last episode, I'm not saying this to make you feel guilty.

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