3 Ways to Connect More as a Couple in Everyday Life, Even When Busy: Episode 341
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Building connection (and closeness) with your partner is fundamental to having a happy and satisfying relationship. Yet it's the first thing that takes a back seat when you are busy, stressed, or just in the routine of your life.
Yes, maintaining connection takes effort. If you thought you could be in a marriage without effort, someone needs to inform your partner! But it doesn't need to be extravagant or just be when you have time for date nights. In this episode you will hear 3 ways to build and maintain connection in your everyday life, so that your long-term life can be satisfying for both of you!
Relationship Resources
The next round of 30 Day Couples Challenges start May 1st. Now we have the level 1, prioritizing Us, and the level 2, Rebuilding Us challenges. You can see the details of both of them at our main weblink here: https://www.meetthefreemans.com/links
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:02.7 | 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. |
| 0:10.7 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.8 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.4 | And this episode is about three ways to connect more as a couple in everyday life, even when |
| 0:21.7 | you're busy, which I will say we were last few days. |
| 0:25.6 | I mean, we, I would say, have a very full life all the time. |
| 0:30.6 | And yes, we just moved this last week. |
| 0:32.9 | I feel like we have not stopped moving our bodies from morning 5 a.m. basically till 9 p.m. for a week straight. |
| 0:41.4 | And of course, that's not the everyday week, right? You're not moving constantly. |
| 0:46.3 | But it definitely was one of those moments where you're like, wow, like a week can pass by. |
| 0:52.1 | And did you even make eye contact? You know, did you even connect? How are you two |
| 0:56.1 | doing as individuals and as a couple? And it just got us thinking, again, life can always feel |
| 1:01.9 | busy. I put that up for us on our stories is that you can keep saying later we'll focus on us. |
| 1:09.1 | Later we'll, you know, make our marriage better. But right now we're |
| 1:12.8 | focused on the kids or we've got a lot to do. We're in our career season. We're focusing on our |
| 1:17.1 | career goals, money goals, building that home. And you can keep putting your relationship off. |
| 1:22.5 | Or here's the other thing that can happen. You say, well, we have our date. Date night is in two weeks or three |
| 1:29.5 | weeks or we've got that vacation in two months. That's when we'll connect. So it can keep being postponed |
| 1:35.0 | to later. But that isn't any way to live, right? We really only have this present moment. And the way |
| 1:43.4 | we see connection, which is what we're going to cover |
| 1:45.7 | today in these three ways to focus on your connection, is that it has to be a little something |
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