5 Root Causes of Most Relationship Challenges: Episode 139
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Challenges arise in every relationship and this is not something you have to try and change. It's about whether you approach the challenges as a team or against each other. To have the best shot at staying on the same team, you need to be prepared before they show up. Then you will respond rather than react to them.
Today's podcast goes into 5 Root Causes of Most Relationship Challenges. Of course there are others, but these are some of the most common ones we see. By knowing these 5 challenges, you will be able to prepare yourself in advance and handle the challenge as a true team when you notice it comes up in your relationship.
Interestingly, a lack of love is not one of the 5 common challenges by the way. We talk to couples every single day who love each other deeply, yet still feel discouraged because they haven't identified the ROOT cause of their challenges.
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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, |
| 0:04.2 | non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, |
| 0:08.6 | fight smarter, and stay on the same team. |
| 0:10.8 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:13.8 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.1 | This episode is about the five root causes of most relationship challenges, and I think this could be one of the most powerful episodes we've done. |
| 0:26.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:26.9 | You know, depending on what season you're in in your relationship, you might be in a season where things are going pretty great. |
| 0:33.2 | You know, you feel connected, happy, or some of you are in a place where you feel disconnected. |
| 0:40.1 | You're in a season of tension, frustration, you're in the challenge and you can't see your way |
| 0:45.4 | out. |
| 0:46.0 | Wherever you are, you will get something out of this. |
| 0:49.8 | Because, and someone said this to us, I can't remember who last week. |
| 0:53.3 | They said, you know, I always thought the time to focus on your relationship was only when you're in the challenge. |
| 0:59.7 | Oh. |
| 1:00.3 | And they said, what if we actually shifted it to be when you're not in the challenge so that you were prepared for it if it came up? |
| 1:09.5 | Wow. |
| 1:10.0 | That's really great. |
| 1:10.9 | I mean, if you think about any business, don't they plan for things that could happen, |
| 1:14.5 | changes that could be unforeseen, but you just plan for whatever is out there. |
| 1:18.4 | As a sports player and being on sports teams, we practiced every basketball scenario we could |
| 1:26.6 | possibly think of in practice so that we are prepared. |
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