Hello, friends. This is the Empowered Couples podcast, but we are skipping the intro because you listen

already to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and overcome any challenge. And we want to give you a

special episode to give you the motivation, the inspiration, and the action to actually have that

happen. And that's going to happen with the couples workshop.

Absolutely.

All right.

We're going to get to the details of the couple's workshop.

But first, you're not alone if you're experiencing some of these challenges right now.

Number one, you're having frustrating miscommunications. One way we'd even say it is you feel more understood by your cute dog or Netflix's recommendations for you than your partner,

especially around important topics to you.

Or you have those same two or three disagreements over and over again and you're like,

seriously, why can't we break through this?

Erin, what else are you hearing?

Yeah, and you are not alone because we do hear this from a lot of couples and you may be feeling that you have different needs right now.

You may also be just desiring change or something new and for lots of couples feeling that the routine has now taken over for that sense of passion and enthusiasm in the relationship.

Now here's the thing. You try to bring this up. You try to have this conversation with your

partner, but it just leads to a disagreement. You all of a sudden don't feel understood

at all when you try to talk about this from a positive intent. And really this is the cycle

you keep on finding yourself in. You

can't quite have this conversation for a change or something new you desire because it just puts

you into this cycle. Yeah, a couple more challenges I want to address. You may be experiencing

these power struggles. You know, you have these different needs, as Aaron talked about, and when you try to talk about them,

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