5 Ways to Get Out of a Marriage FUNK and Spark More FUN Together: Episode 352
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Whether you've been in a funk as a couple, or things have just felt pretty routine with your "adulting" responsibilities, this episode will help you SPARK more fun together!
The truth is, life is short. And we don't believe we're meant to just let the weeks pass by and survive our busy schedule. Of course there are challenging days (and you hear us talk about that), but let's enter into a season of more fulfillment, connection, and play together.
You will hear 5 very tangible and actionable ways to spark more fun together, so dive on in!
We often hear couples say, "we get inspired and motivated to create these changes for a few days, and then we forget or get off track." And that's exactly why we created the 30-Day Couples Challenge!
Relationship Resources (pick between):
Level 1: "Prioritizing Us" is focused on strengthening your connection, communication, and fun Love Deposit ideas. LINKED HERE - https://mycoupleschallenge.com/
Level 2: "Rebuilding Us" is focused on repairing and rebuilding after a harder season of marriage. LINKED HERE - https://mycoupleschallenge.com/rebuilding
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.4 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and |
| 0:10.0 | stay on the same team no matter the challenge you face. I'm one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is |
| 0:18.2 | five ways to get out of that marriage funk and spark more fun together. |
| 0:22.8 | Don't you like the alliteration there, right? Get out of the funk and have more fun together. |
| 0:27.6 | Because the truth is, the longer you're together, the busier that you get, maybe there's some rough patches you encounter or hardship. |
| 0:34.5 | It's easy to experience one of two things. One, you're either just in a hard season, |
| 0:39.7 | so it can feel like you're even just trying to survive your busy schedule. Like we just |
| 0:44.0 | signed up our daughter for both dance on Mondays, swim on Fridays. So it feels like we have |
| 0:50.2 | more and more activities as well as going to friends birthday parties and finishing our work. |
| 0:55.1 | This is so funny to have this conversation. It's like these are the things all parents say |
| 0:59.7 | and now we're like living it. Exactly. So it can be just a busy full season or maybe you're |
| 1:06.2 | experiencing some adversity, some challenges or it can feel like you just get into a routine together, |
| 1:13.1 | right? It almost feels like Groundhog Day, you've been together a long time, it's like, |
| 1:17.0 | oh, there you are again. You know, we've lived so many years together. And the thing is, |
| 1:22.4 | as human beings, we can get complacent. When we don't have something we're focusing on, we can default to survival. |
| 1:31.8 | You'll hear us refer to that on different episodes because that's the thing. The brain isn't designed |
| 1:37.0 | to thrive. Its default is let me survive. And so that's what your brain is going to focus on, |
| 1:43.9 | getting by, just getting through |
| 1:45.5 | the day, et cetera, until you give it something to focus on. And we know that you don't want to |
| 1:51.7 | just survive your marriage or survive life together. You truly want to experience fun together, |
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