4 Reasons Couples Grow Apart Emotionally and the 4 Levels of a Relationship: Episode 164
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A male client was vulnerable last week and said, "we've been together 10 years, have 3 beautiful children, and have great careers. And while I think we should be closer than ever, I feel more distant than ever."
This powerfully shows that being emotionally connected does not have to do with time or reaching life milestones together. In fact, couples grow apart emotionally from 4 subtle behaviors that build up over time. We go into these deeper reasons, as well as the 4 levels of a relationship so you can start to notice which level you are at, and how to progress to the next within your own relationship!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:04.5 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same |
| 0:10.0 | team no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your host, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn |
| 0:14.4 | Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about four reasons why couples |
| 0:19.4 | grow apart emotionally and then the four levels of a relationship. |
| 0:24.4 | Some of you might have heard that like growing apart emotionally and said, oh my gosh, I haven't said this to anyone or I don't talk to my friends about this because social media we post the highlight reel. |
| 0:35.4 | But many of you tell us that you feel this way. |
| 0:39.2 | And this actually was really standing out to us on a session with a new client that's coming on board with his wife. |
| 0:45.8 | And he said, and it was so vulnerable and it was so open, you know, we've been together a long time. |
| 0:51.9 | We've got children together. |
| 0:53.4 | We have achieved great things, careers, you know, all the milestones together a long time. We've got children together. We have achieved great |
| 0:54.9 | things, careers, you know, all the milestones. They run a business together? Yeah. And yet, I feel |
| 1:01.1 | the least emotionally connected than ever, right? So it's not about time together. It's not about |
| 1:07.3 | reaching these milestones even. Of course, we love those and those are important part of life, |
| 1:12.4 | but in terms of being emotionally connected and preventing your relationship from growing apart, |
| 1:19.0 | that's not going to cut it. So today's episode is going to cover that exactly. Yeah, and this feeling |
| 1:24.2 | of growing apart emotionally really is like a focus of just managing life events |
| 1:32.5 | or just functioning well. |
| 1:34.9 | And so that can be with kids and managing the kids' school or sports or needs, as well as just |
| 1:41.6 | overall living and organization of a home where to live making sure the home |
| 1:46.3 | is organized and put together well and functioning right paying the bills maintaining all the cars |
| 1:52.4 | and the toys the oil changes the yard just all of the things so you get to a place where you're functioning. And sometimes you can feel |
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