Creating Healthy Social Media And Technology Boundaries In A Modern Relationship: Bud + Sarah Dunn
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, you will get to hear us being interviewed on the "Confident Couples Podcast" hosted by Bud and Sara Dunn. This was such a fun, humorous, and much needed topic about the impact that technology and social media has on modern day relationships (who doesn't experience this right?!) Both sides of the positive impact and some of the areas that there may be 'negative' impacts on your connection, both of which you will even be surprised by!
In this episode you will know some of the positive and negative impacts of social media (that you wouldn't normally think about) on modern relationships. You will then be able to make new agreements, set healthy boundaries, release the hold onto some assumptions you may have about your partner, and maintain (even restore) trust and connection within the relationship. With all this said, you will be able to use social media and technology within your relationship to continuously be even more connected and on the same page with your vision!
Questions asked in this interview
- What are the things you see that are impacting and challenging modern couples with social media and technology?
- You say a big takeaway for couples is to make agreements around using technology, what are some examples?
- How can couples use social media and technology productively within their relationship?
- What advice is there for one partner when they do not agree with the type of content their partner looks at and consumes?
- How can a couple recover from a "trust breaking event" as it pertains to social media and what they look at?
- Is it necessary to make these grand public professions of love for our partners for every single life event? If I don't, does that mean I'm not being the best partner I can be?
Quotes:
"Most couples are just holding on to assumptions about their partners, when what they really need is agreements. This makes all the difference in your trust and connection". - Jocelyn
Connect More With The Guests:
Connect with "Confident Couples" and Bud & Sarah more at: 1)Website: https://budandsara.com/
2) Instagram: @BudandSara
Other Resources:
1) Get a FREE hard copy of the book The New Power Couple (just pay for shipping). Then join the "POWER COUPLE Book Club"
2) Follow us on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We had a really productive, great day. |
| 0:02.2 | It was an awesome day. |
| 0:03.6 | And I went to grab my phone as we're relaxing. And he said, well, I just got to say it's funny. She didn't even have her phone. She had put it away. So she asked me for my phone. So I like tossed it across the couch. So not only that, she's on my phone on technology. And then I look over. And I'm like, what are you doing? I thought you were just looking up these new shoes that we were buying. |
| 0:22.5 | She said, well, I'm on Instagram. |
| 0:24.3 | I said, no. phone on technology and then I look over. I'm like, what are you doing? I thought you were just looking |
| 0:20.8 | up these new shoes that we were buying. She said, well, I'm on Instagram. I said, no. Well, because, |
| 0:25.8 | and here's what's funny about it. So I have made this agreement with myself, which has helped tremendously, |
| 0:31.9 | where I put my phone literally away. It is face down, silent by our bed, like where it charges, and I don't look at it |
| 0:40.8 | after I try 6 or 7 p.m. till the morning. And that's helped a lot. Hello and welcome to this |
| 0:46.7 | special episode of the Empowered couples podcast. And it is special because as you just heard in that |
| 0:52.3 | clip, you recognize those voices as Jocelyn and I. |
| 0:56.2 | So this is actually a special episode because we were interviewed on a podcast, actually the |
| 1:02.0 | confident couples podcast hosted by Bud and Sarah Dunn. |
| 1:06.4 | And it turned out to be such a great topic. |
| 1:09.1 | It's the impact of social media and technology on modern relationships. |
| 1:14.7 | And hello, who does not experience that today? |
| 1:18.4 | So this turned out to be really funny and humorous as well as a topic that we had not dove |
| 1:24.2 | into in the Empowered couples podcast. |
| 1:26.3 | So of course, we got permission. So we have |
| 1:29.1 | brought this audio recording from the Confident Couples podcast here today. And we are excited to |
| 1:35.3 | share it with you because we dove into not only the positive side, but also some of the negative |
| 1:40.9 | side, what kind of causes disconnection in your relationship from social media. |
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