Focus on the 3 C's to Feel Loved By Each Other Through the Holiday Season: Episode 424
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The holidays can bring out both the best and the worst in a marriage. Between packed schedules, family dynamics, and endless to-do lists, it's easy for connection to get lost in the chaos. But this season doesn't have to feel like survival mode or that you are just getting through the functions. There are a few key areas in your relationship that—if you focus on them each day—can make you feel appreciated and united as a couple, no matter what the holidays throw your way.
In this episode, we're sharing three powerful shifts with the "3C's" to help you stay emotionally close and work as a team through the holiday season. You'll walk away knowing exactly where to put your attention so the two of you can feel loved, supported, and in sync instead of drained or distant at the end of this holiday season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | 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. |
| 0:11.1 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know it says the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.9 | And this is a holiday episode to remind you to focus on the three Cs so that you feel loved by each other through this season. |
| 0:25.9 | Now admittedly, this is going to be a quick, brief, power-packed episode because we are flying to see family tomorrow for Thanksgiving week. |
| 0:35.7 | And like you, we've got a lot on our plates, but we want to |
| 0:38.9 | be consistent. We want to show up for you. And frankly, this topic, what we're going to cover, |
| 0:44.1 | if you do this, if you focus on the three Cs that we're going into, you truly will be able to |
| 0:50.2 | go through the holidays. And we know that it can feel chaotic. There's a lot of different |
| 0:54.4 | directions you have to go. In fact, our daughter's birthday is Christmas week. So it's like a very |
| 1:00.3 | full time and family visiting and a birthday party for her because we promised we'd always keep |
| 1:05.9 | her birthday separate and not collapse it with Christmas. So we understand it's a busy time of year. But don't forget |
| 1:13.5 | that marriage, what we all really want is to feel loved. We want to feel close to this person. |
| 1:22.2 | We don't want to just get through time and get a lot done and be like, oh, hey, stranger, or here's this person that, |
| 1:31.1 | you know, we have all this friction with. And so we're going to remind you with these three |
| 1:35.1 | how to make sure love is present in your interactions and that you're not just opening up |
| 1:41.8 | holiday gifts and, you know, making these nice meals and there's a |
| 1:46.0 | wall between you two. We know that is the last place that you want to be in your marriage. And I |
| 1:51.4 | truly believe as we go into these three Cs, if you do them, you will go through the holidays |
| 1:58.1 | feeling like it is your best year ever, that you are ending the year on a |
| 2:02.7 | great note, and guess what, it's going to set you up to start the next year on a great note. |
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