Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. 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. I am one of your host, Jocelyn Freeman.

And today, you'll actually be hearing from me. It is the week before the holidays, and so we are dividing and conquering.

And you probably can relate because it is that rush time of year where you're trying to get

everything done and then get off time with your family and kind of relax before the end

of the year.

And what a perfect time to think about your intentions

for the next year. I think what's powerful about, you know, the end of one and the beginning of

another year is that we get to reflect. We get to think about what's been working and what's exciting and what we want to

celebrate, but also the things that we want to adjust and change and make sure that we're on

track with the life we ultimately want to live because it can fly by so quickly and you can realize,

wait, I have been on autopilot. I have not been really

intentional and I'm off track a little bit. We're off track a little bit. And so this episode is a way

to reflect together, to set intentions. And we've been covering this a bit on different episodes,

but this one is specifically about

falling in love versus staying in love and the science of maintaining your romantic connection

over time. The reason we wanted to cover this is because, you know, we get the insider

information as to what couples go through because we're on

sessions all day, every day, and we're a couple ourselves. And let's be real. It's very easy

for you, for us, for anyone to compare your relationship to a scene that you see in a movie. You're

watching this romantic movie and you're like, oh my gosh,

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