End the Battle For "Fairness" Within Your Relationship Roles: Episode 250
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
You are familiar with those times where you go to ask for help or share a need you have with your partner. All of a sudden you find yourself keeping score of all the things you do, comparing how much you do, and making sure then see that it's more than they do. Now you are in a battle for what is fair and where you feel things are out of balance.
In this episdoe you will hear about where this dynamic comes from and the main tips to get our of the cycle. This is a complex dynamic as well so be sure to join the FREE webclass to overcome this battle for good:
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Let's end "The Battle for Fairness" in relationship roles, overcoming resentment, and reducing overwhelm in your partnership.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:04.5 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and |
| 0:09.3 | stand the same team no matter to the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but all of you know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.7 | And this episode is about ending the battle for fairness within your relationship roles. |
| 0:22.3 | And this is a great one. |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah. And truly, we caught ourselves. |
| 0:26.2 | I remember having like an out of body experience a little over a week ago catching us have |
| 0:32.5 | this conversation. |
| 0:33.8 | I remember like standing there going, oh my gosh, this is one of those moments where we are doing this tip for tad and literally listing off to each other the things that we're each doing. |
| 0:43.3 | Well, I think we got more present to what it's like to have a job, right? And to come home from work. And if you've been following the podcast, you know it's been a very challenging season for |
| 0:54.7 | me individually and then obviously the dynamics that played out for both of us with the investment |
| 1:01.4 | and not going well and that's showing me different places where I wasn't secure within myself |
| 1:07.1 | or my own value and money and all that was being brought up right well and you were gone like |
| 1:11.9 | 45 50 hours a week i did over 150 hours i did multiple 12 13 hour days seven days in a row i mean honestly |
| 1:20.1 | i mean i really did kill myself to get this to end up working out and it was interesting because |
| 1:26.9 | that for us unlike any of their time brought up this back |
| 1:32.2 | and forth this battle for fairness so when I would come back which is much like many of you maybe |
| 1:38.0 | that go off to a job and then come back home so I would come back home and it was so stressful |
| 1:42.4 | I'm having like a hundred conversations a day I'm'm writing checks to people. I'm managing the workload for the next day. I'm managing work that's not getting done. Finding problems. I'm so tired. It's 110 degrees. I painted the roof myself. I spread all this rock. I did so much stuff myself. And I would come back home and then you would like ask for help |
| 2:02.3 | on something yeah well because I was here and I was managing our business thank goodness |
| 2:07.0 | we're so grateful that we have a home-based business and taking care of Sky now we did have |
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