How Parenthood Has Affected Our Marriage + The Biggest Challenges We See Couples Face: Episode 323
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Parenting definitely shifts priorities, but that shouldn't mean we de-prioritize our marriage, right? This week was our daughter's 2nd birthday and we were reflecting on our own parenting journey up until this point.
We know from many couples that parenting really does shift many things in a marriage, even studies have shown that satisfaction goes down in the first 5 years of becoming parents. Though there are so many great positives that also come with being a parent, in this episode you will hear about the challenges that we have faced in the first 2 years, the common challenges other parents face, and the steps to take to better handle these challenges. All so that they do not negatively impact your marriage and you can focus more on all the benefits of being a parent and a great partner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast, where here you get modern, non-boring, relationship |
| 0:07.6 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:12.8 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:17.2 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about how parenthood has affected our marriage and the biggest challenges we see other couples face. |
| 0:26.4 | Speaking of challenges, Aaron isn't feeling 100% as you might hear in his voice and yet he's here. |
| 0:32.2 | I just want to. Speaking of challenges. Honor you. Well, what I mean is you don't get a day off, right? |
| 0:37.8 | Even if you're not feeling well, there's no like clocking out of parenthood. |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah, so I apologize to everyone. |
| 0:44.1 | It's just really the voice. |
| 0:45.4 | If I had some things going on with it past a couple of months, |
| 0:48.7 | German New Medicine, apparently there's something I haven't been saying, |
| 0:52.3 | but that would be surprising. |
| 0:54.0 | We do want to just have this be a fun episode, holiday season. |
| 0:58.8 | It's especially important for us as our daughter turned two and her birthday is always going to be around Christmas week. |
| 1:05.0 | It's the 21st. |
| 1:06.3 | And so we wanted to share for us because we see many couples as well as there's lots of studies out there |
| 1:12.9 | that show that the first five years of being parents dramatically decreases the satisfaction in |
| 1:20.1 | a marriage and there's a other study that just shows overall that marriage satisfaction declines |
| 1:27.1 | to be at lowest at seven years and then it starts to turn |
| 1:32.3 | around from there. So probably these two are correlated. You know, you're usually going to have |
| 1:36.8 | kids within the first seven years of marriage. But it also shows that if you can stay in it, |
| 1:42.8 | if you can adopt and implement the skills and tools, that you can |
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