Be Willing to Evolve in These 3 Areas, Otherwise Marriage Isn't For You: Episode 377
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Most everyone gets into a marriage for the positive feelings of love, compatibility, passion, and creating a future together. It's these great feelings and potential outcomes that can happen that make marriage a desirable thing. What most people miss is what it requires to be married and maintain the feelings of togetherness and high satisfaction through all the unforeseen challenges and obstacles. It is funny how we all think our relationship will be different from all those who went before us… but the fact is you need to be ready to evolve in ways you can't see right now.
In this solo episode you will hear from Aaron as he walks through 3 areas of evolution that you need to accept and be ready for if you want to be successful in marriage. Continuing a thread from the previous episode about the acronym COMMITTED, you will dive further into the area of Evolution and Adaptation and these three areas you need to be willing to adapt in, first as an individual, and then as a couple, to have your marriage stand the test of time!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, |
| 0:10.4 | fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:14.1 | I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman, and I'll be your solo host for today. |
| 0:19.3 | Now, even before I get into it, it's funny how often Jocelyn and I have situations |
| 0:26.2 | and things show up in our own life and marriage, |
| 0:29.6 | literally right before a podcast recording |
| 0:33.2 | or a coaching session, |
| 0:34.7 | and then it turns out that us going through that and say learning a lesson |
| 0:40.4 | or getting an insight ends up being the exact thing that a couple that we were coaching |
| 0:46.0 | needed to hear. So similar to that thread, it's interesting today as I talk about this topic |
| 0:53.8 | of being willing to evolve in these three areas, otherwise marriage isn't for you. We had planned on doing this podcast together. And to be honest, Jocelyn had a number of things come up with her mom. |
| 1:11.3 | And you've heard her talk about that there is an ongoing pattern that happens between her and her mom. |
| 1:19.4 | You know, it started from a divorce between her mom and dad over 20 years ago, but there are still these patterns. You know, for Jocelyn, and I don't want to speak |
| 1:30.0 | to her story, so I'm just giving you the summary, but being 12 years old and having to deal with |
| 1:36.5 | the amount of drama and chaos and court appearance and police being called, and then the aftermath |
| 1:44.1 | of all of that is really not that |
| 1:48.8 | much different being 20 years from that event happening. And so Jocelyn over the last couple of days |
| 1:55.6 | had another one of these conflicts come up with her mom. And then there's just so many texts and calls and trying to get |
| 2:04.1 | on the phone and not understand that just so much energy that it ends up just depleting her |
| 2:11.6 | of energy. So she's resting and was unable to do this podcast. But I say that because it really does play into one of the |
| 2:20.7 | areas I want to talk about today and having to evolve. And again, we take these situations as |
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