How to Handle Stress So it Doesn't Negatively Impact Your Marriage: Episode 433
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Stress is unavoidable. Between the state of the world, work demands, parenting, and the pressure to keep everything running, most couples are carrying more than they realize. The problem isn't stress itself, it's how easily it spills into your marriage. When stress goes unmanaged, it shows up as tension, miscommunication, defensiveness, and feeling like you're constantly behind or letting each other down. And suddenly, the relationship that should feel like support starts to feel like another source of pressure.
In this episode, we talk about how stress moves through your life and into your relationship—and what to do before it quietly erodes connection. You'll learn how to create more margin, emotional awareness, and intentional connection so stress doesn't run your interactions or your home. Because when your marriage is supported, everything else in life—parenting, work, and decision-making—becomes lighter and more sustainable.
If you want to protect your relationship from getting pushed to the bottom of the list, join our 30-Day "Prioritizing Us" Couples Challenge⭐️. It's designed to help couples stay connected and proactive during busy, stressful seasons through small daily actions that strengthen your foundation. Start the next round for Valentines Day at mycoupleschallenge.com 👈
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:04.7 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same |
| 0:09.8 | team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:14.2 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And today, let's talk about how to handle stress |
| 0:19.3 | so it doesn't negatively impact your marriage. |
| 0:22.7 | Are you stressed right now? |
| 0:24.2 | I was going to ask you the same thing. |
| 0:27.3 | Am I stressed? |
| 0:28.7 | I do have some pressure as we are finishing our book. |
| 0:33.0 | It's been quite the last month. |
| 0:35.4 | It has been even more focused last week as we turn in our manuscript |
| 0:40.0 | today actually. So applause, even though we're here by ourselves. And you know, it's an interesting |
| 0:46.4 | question about what stress is positive and what stress is negative. We'll probably get into |
| 0:52.3 | this episode talking about, you know, you need a certain |
| 0:55.5 | amount of pressure and stress to be pushing you to do positive things. If you had zero stress, |
| 1:05.1 | then you're probably not going after things very hard. Yeah, that's true. So maybe a different |
| 1:10.7 | point we get into. |
| 1:11.9 | However, I did want to start today by talking about these three different types of stress. |
| 1:19.2 | Everyone has stress, and you can have them exist in these three different categories. |
| 1:25.2 | There's external stress, and it's very easy now I would say to get stressed |
| 1:31.1 | about things in the outside world. And in those outside world things, as I mentioned, we'll |
| 1:38.2 | categorize this as the external stress. Now, secondly, you can have personal stress. This is really what you're working towards |
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