How to Be More Self-Aware to Break YOUR Patterns That Affect the Marriage: Episode 391
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Marriage isn't static; it evolves, and to thrive in it, you have to evolve too. Often, it's the resistance to this truth, not just the circumstances you face, that makes marriage feel more difficult. Satisfaction goes down, frustration goes up. That's why personal growth and self-awareness are non-negotiables in a long-term marriage.
In this episode, we unpack what "personal growth and development" actually looks like in a relationship. You'll hear six key areas to reflect on and bring more awareness to within yourself, before turning to what you want your partner to change. Growth starts with awareness, but we'll also share specific ideas and actions you can take in each area. This is the path both partners must walk individually so the marriage can continue to evolve in a connected, fulfilling way.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.0 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay |
| 0:09.5 | in the same team no matter the challenge you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm |
| 0:13.5 | Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about how to be |
| 0:18.0 | more self-aware to break patterns that affect your marriage. |
| 0:22.4 | And specifically your patterns. This is going to be very much an episode to listen to and |
| 0:29.1 | challenge yourself and really be looking in the mirror. And we would hope that you both |
| 0:34.4 | listen to this episode. So send this to your partner right now and say, |
| 0:37.6 | babe, let's both hear this. Let's both reflect on our parts and then we'll talk about it. |
| 0:43.6 | Which is different than you sending, you know, when people, right, in general, send a real |
| 0:48.1 | or a podcast to the partner and say, you need to listen to this for yourself. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. Obviously from this title, send it to each other. |
| 0:56.4 | Like, hey, it's such a good way that you put it. |
| 0:58.4 | Let's both consider how we each can do better from these points that they make. |
| 1:03.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:03.9 | So here's the thing to get first. |
| 1:06.5 | We do not marry a perfect person. |
| 1:10.5 | That means your partner is not perfect, nor are you. |
| 1:15.3 | And we need to accept this fact because it might seem common sense, but we lose sight of this |
| 1:21.3 | and we really can start to hold each other to these high standards. Sometimes that we're not |
| 1:26.8 | even holding ourselves to. Sometimes we're harder on our partner than we're not even holding ourselves to. |
| 1:28.2 | Sometimes we're harder on our partner than we're even being on ourselves, if we get really |
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