Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship

advice for you 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, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all

just know us as the Freeman's. This episode is about the three signs of complacency, as well as

three ways to keep your marriage vibrant.

And this one honestly has been a gut check for us. We've been talking about it in the last several

days, complacency in our own marriage and relationship and our lives, how we're showing up for

each other. And it's also been a theme in our most recent coaching sessions with couples

where we can even see from their body language the way they're talking as individuals and

together where they're just not fully vibrant, right? Like there's an aliveness missing. And so

today, consider this episode is going to be kind of motivating. I mean,

not kind of is going to be. It's going to be a bit of a gut check as well. And you're going to feel

some fire in this. Because we only have this one life. Like I want to start off a little bit

motivational. We only have this one life. You don't want to look back when you're 80 years old and be like, you know what?

I gave 20% of my best to my partner.

I was just listening this morning that life is really made up of a limited amount of time and energy.

So true.

So the question becomes, what are you doing with that time and energy? So complacency

can lead to feeling like roommates or just a general lack of aliveness, a lack of vibrancy, right?

Which vibrancy means like you just truly feel activated, you feel present, you feel joyful

as individuals, but also within the relationship.

And look, none of us got married or in committed relationships because we want to survive, right?

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