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

on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Jocelyn Freeman,

and Aaron Freeman isn't going to be joining today. However, you're going to love this topic,

and he is actually going to speak to the challenges that men are facing next week. So let's really talk about this.

You know, we wanted to really separate these episodes, not because anybody could be feeling

the things that I'm going to be addressing today, but because it's interesting

to just hear what are women going through versus what are men going through in relationships.

And we're grateful that we get to do so many sessions with couples and get to hear it and be able

to create the space where couples can share that. And so don't worry, men, you're not going to be left

out next week. We'll be covering the challenges that they are facing. where couples can share that. And so don't worry, men, you're not going to be left out.

Next week, we'll be covering the challenges that they are facing. But I wanted to go into this in two episodes because we are entering the fall season. And we have done this so many years now

that we can really see these cycles that happen throughout the year. And truly, historically, we have seen that in these fall months leading up to the new year,

there is either the opportunity to become strengthened as a couple or strained.

And we really do see that.

We do see some couples end the year feeling like, okay, this isn't great, nothing changed. We're not as connected. We're not working through these challenges and they start off the year that way. And then there's almost this like panic to like work through it. It's a new year. And so we want you to even start to think about the quote unquote end of the year now in terms of within the

relationship what is there to work through process through improve upgrade right not just waiting

for the new year and again this has been a time where some couples do end up being more strained

but you're listening to this episode. And so really, we have the

opportunity to focus on becoming stronger. Now, before I go into these three challenges, I want to

say this at the very beginning. If you at all are stuck with something in your partnership,

you have listened to our episodes. You have read our book.

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