Do a Mid-Year Check-in on Your Life & Marriage Priorities. A Great Conversation Starter From Our Impromptu Staycation! Episode 301
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We went on an impromptu staycation this weekend… just us! And we used some of our time (besides playing, flirting, and relaxing) to have some meaningful conversations. We like to call them "check-ins." This one in particular happened to be getting on the same page about our life and marriage priorities for the rest of the year.
Do you and your partner feel on the same page about what your priorities are? If you don't take some time a few times per year, you can just be going about the motions expending energy in two different directions… or nowhere at all, really.
So dive into today's episode to get some inspiration for a great conversation you can have together!
Resources For Your Relationship:
Join the "Prioritize Us" Couples Challenge - the 30 day challenge for couples to simplify how to make positive changes in their marriage and prioritize loving actions and respectful communication. This one starts Aug 1st, 2023 and you get the Family Meeting Guide included.
If you just want the Family Meeting Guide on it's own, you can get it separately here too.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:14.5 | I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:16.1 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:18.7 | And this episode is titled, Do a mid-year check-in on |
| 0:22.2 | your life and marriage priorities. And we're going to give you some great conversation starters from |
| 0:27.6 | our impromptu staycation we just did. Right. So we'll dive in a little bit more as to what happened, |
| 0:32.5 | but I want to start actually with a spontaneous question, Aaron, that I think will add value to everyone as well. |
| 0:38.7 | Where is your love account score at? |
| 0:42.2 | How would you rate your love account right now? |
| 0:44.0 | Put it me on the spot. |
| 0:45.9 | And I had to ask you even before this, is it okay for me to share? |
| 0:50.4 | Because we did this vacation yesterday, this Monday when we record obviously listeners you're |
| 0:56.5 | hearing this on Tuesday but I was a 10 going to sleep last night and now already just from a few |
| 1:04.8 | things I'm at a 9. That's high. I was at a 10 and just being honest, just a couple of small things. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm down on a 9, but still high. |
| 1:14.5 | And I don't take it personally because, number one, we talk about the love account so much. |
| 1:20.4 | We're so open about it that I just don't take it personally. |
| 1:23.8 | I know, okay, we both were at a 10 yesterday. |
| 1:26.3 | And I would also say mine's at a 9 now too. |
| 1:29.2 | And it's not that it's like we're counting every notch down, right? Like we don't want you to take |
| 1:34.8 | that away from this of, oh, wow, he's really counting like she said this thing and then she said |
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