Establishing Your Family Values and Evaluating Your Priorities Together: Episode 253
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
If you have ever felt that you needed to make a difficult decision or that you have been in the same place in your marriage longer than you've wanted, you likely need to identify your values and adjust your priorities!
Now this can be a very seasonal thing, even core values can adjust based on the season you are coming out of or wanting to enter into! Sometimes it even involves rearranging your core values to one's that are more important to you right now. But this can be a hard conversation because it takes getting clarity as well as being willing to ask hard conversions, be honest with yourself, and change some habits.
In this episode you will hear the exercise we use to redefine our values in each season and align our priorities with those values. We are going through that season in our marriage right now and we will share our current values, our new priorities and this exercise that we put up on our frig!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.1 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team, |
| 0:10.4 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:14.2 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about establishing your family |
| 0:19.3 | values and evaluating your priorities together. |
| 0:22.8 | And you may be a family of two. You might be a family of 10, but regardless, you are a family, |
| 0:27.5 | you are a team. And maybe you've done this in the past. It's actually more rare. I think it's |
| 0:32.4 | like less than 5% of couples that we talk to have ever sat down and really written out their values. |
| 0:39.3 | They might have on their initial dates kind of been like, oh, I value family and I value, |
| 0:44.2 | you know, career growth. And so sure, maybe when you were dating, you talked about things that you |
| 0:48.7 | value. But very few couples have actually sat down even when they got married. And some of you were now like 30 years into marriage, like evaluated what is important to you. |
| 1:00.0 | What do you value? |
| 1:02.0 | So we're going to be diving into this. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm excited. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, it's a huge topic because it's what, number one, is your guidance to making more difficult decisions down the line, not having things |
| 1:14.3 | feel like they're the same for years and years. And that's the point it brings us to, all right? |
| 1:20.3 | I mean, if you're following our podcast at all, you know these topics are usually either what |
| 1:26.1 | we're going through now and learning through it have gone |
| 1:29.4 | through, have principles around, or we hear from many couples. And so if that's the case for you, |
| 1:35.8 | this values conversation is going to be wonderful. If there's a harder decision or big life |
| 1:40.5 | decision to make, that's the main thing around values and typically you know you can have |
| 1:47.0 | things just keep going the way they're going or we make decisions based on how we feel not on what |
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