Having Your Needs Met in Marriage Isn't as Simple as You'd Think: Episode 345
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Do you know what you need in your relationship? Whether you do or not right in this moment, knowing what you need is certainly a requirement for being able to communicate and act to fulfill it. This is the basis for having a satisfying relationship.
In this episode we go deeper into explaining our process for effectively communicating your needs and what being assertive really means. But you will also have a new perspective on whether you really know what you need or not. It is not as simple as you think.
Relationship Resources:
Both of the 30 Day Couples Challenges start on Jne 1st.
The Level 1 - Prioritizing Us Challenge
The Level 2 - Rebuilding Us Challenge
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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 on the same team. |
| 0:10.7 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.7 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.5 | And this episode is about having your needs met in marriage, and it's not as simple as you think. |
| 0:22.3 | If you think about it, part of why we decide to partner up with someone is to build a great |
| 0:28.2 | life together and to mutually meet each other's needs. In a sense, that's part of the agreement. |
| 0:34.5 | If you choose to walk down the aisle and promise things to each other |
| 0:38.8 | as you get married, in a sense you are promising to care about meeting each other's needs, |
| 0:44.8 | but it's very easy to lose sight of that. When you get into the daily grind and your responsibilities |
| 0:50.7 | and there's a lot of focus on the kids, the household, work, etc. |
| 0:55.7 | So this weekend, we actually led our in-person couples workshop in Arizona. |
| 1:00.4 | It was amazing. |
| 1:02.2 | One of my favorite workshops that we've ever done and we've been doing these a long time. |
| 1:06.3 | And couples traveled in, one couple all the way from Hawaii came from this paradise to the desert. |
| 1:13.1 | Another couple, it was amazing. They flew in that morning, like 5 a.m. flight to get there and were |
| 1:20.3 | flying home that evening after the workshop because they have young kiddos at home and they |
| 1:25.4 | wanted to get back. but they made it happen. |
| 1:27.9 | That is so inspiring to me. |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah, it was to me too. |
| 1:30.9 | I talked with a couple that were from Missouri. |
| 1:33.6 | They had, it wasn't probably the first time, but they had seen the workshop date that Tuesday of the workshop. |
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