How Stress Affects Your Marriage (Plus Ways to Better Cope & Stay Connected): Episode 360
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
How would you rate the amount of stress in your life right now? We all know that some stress is good stress and that it's a part of life. Its commonly known that stress plays a major role in physical, mental, and emotional well-being of all of us individually. It's less known (or at least discussed) how much stress decreases marriage satisfaction and quality!
In today's episode you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about the effects of stress on your marriage. After listening to this episode you will know:
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The 3 sources of stress
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How stress directly affects 2 key components in your marriage
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Ways to use key coping methods to deal with stress individually and together
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10 + positive coping strategies that you can use to better handle the current stressors that you are facing in your life and marriage. So that you can feel relief and be on the same side no matter what stress you face.
Relationship Resources:
1) You can find all of our resources from guides, webclasses, events, to coaching sessions with this link: Best Resources
2)Join us at the in-person Couples Workshop in Arizona on Oct 6th, 2024. Use this as a weekend getaway for you and your partner and attend this 1/2 day event with us to communicate even better and handle challeges as a team.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | 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. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freemans. |
| 0:17.4 | And this episode is about how stress affects your marriage and ways you can better cope so that you can |
| 0:24.3 | stay more connected as a couple. Because we want to be connected even when we encounter stressful |
| 0:29.6 | events, which is going to happen in life. And we're all going to have some stress. Before we jump into |
| 0:34.6 | this, this is going to be a full episode on stress. We probably could |
| 0:37.6 | break this into two episodes, but we're going to give you it all in one go. But before that, |
| 0:43.1 | I haven't asked you this, Jocelyn, where is your level of stress at? On a scale of like zero to 10. |
| 0:48.5 | Whatever you want to do? I would say I feel much more clear and grounded today. Like I would say today I feel I'm at like a four. |
| 0:57.6 | But if you had asked me on Friday, Saturday, it would have felt like an eight. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:04.6 | Big change in a couple of days. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | And I think it's because of the strategies that we're going to talk about as we get further into the episode |
| 1:11.4 | because we don't like get stuck with stress, right? |
| 1:16.0 | We have a lot of healthy strategies for working through it. |
| 1:19.3 | But there's a lot going on in our lives. |
| 1:21.3 | And I want to try and maintain some privacy of people in my life. |
| 1:25.0 | But there were some plot twists that happened with family members, |
| 1:29.7 | various family members, and people that we need to support in different ways, you know, |
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