4 Things Couples Forget to Do After Years Together (That Are Crucial to Connection!): Episode 289
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever wish that you were back in that infamous "honeymoon" stage of your marriage? Believe us we understdand why we hear this from couples. You want to be in that feeling of newness, optimism, passion, and infinite possibilites with a true partner at your side. There is something to honor about this stage but the reality is that this is not just a short window of time that you cannot get back.
It's just that you were doing a bunch of things unconsciously that were leading to this feeling of marrital bliss. In this episode you will be enlightened hearing these 4 things that you just forget to do after being together for years. In some situations it's not that you even forgot but they you never realized you were doing them in the forst place. But now you can relaize what these actions are and consciously bring them into your life to add to increaes your connection, optimism, and feeling of possibility!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast, where here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.1 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay |
| 0:10.3 | on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:13.6 | I am one of the hosts, Jocelyn Freeman, and you're going to be hanging out with just me. |
| 0:17.7 | As my husband, Aaron, is with our baby girl. |
| 0:20.1 | We are dividing and conquering today, |
| 0:22.2 | which is what it takes sometimes as parents. But today's topic is going to be a great reminder, |
| 0:28.7 | hopefully inspirational, motivational for you to be an even better partner. The topic being |
| 0:34.1 | four things couples forget to do after years together that are truly crucial for connection. |
| 0:42.6 | And the thing with relationships with marriage is that we can overcomplicate it sometimes, |
| 0:48.6 | especially when we feel like we're in maybe a tougher season, whether that's because of just life circumstances, |
| 0:54.5 | or maybe things have been a little harder between you and your partner. So you're in a rough |
| 0:58.2 | patch. We can get caught up in the things that aren't working and overcomplicate what it |
| 1:05.8 | looks like to get the ball rolling in the right direction, to get momentum in a positive direction, which is something |
| 1:12.9 | we said to a couple yesterday on a session. We were like, you're overcomplicating this, right? |
| 1:17.4 | Now, of course, there are many things you could be working on, but the four that I'm going to go |
| 1:21.6 | into are simple, subtle things that you forget to do after you're with each other for a while. |
| 1:29.8 | Early in a relationship, it's obvious, right? But we put a lot of intention, energy, thought |
| 1:35.7 | into things within the partnership. And as life gets more complex, you know, we're adulting, |
| 1:42.1 | whether that be with managing a home, more career goals that |
| 1:46.1 | you have, traveling and all of that that it takes, kids, you know, maybe you have parents that |
| 1:52.1 | are unwell or family members that you have to take care of. It feels like life is more complex, |
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