How to Have a Relationship Check-in That's Constructive and Time Efficient (Our Updated Family Meeting Process): Episode 298
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
All great teams "huddle" often, whether a sports team or a professional team. But how often do you guys check-in? Today's episode covers how to have a weekly, quarterly, and yearly check-in. This is a major update to our process we shared in 2021, which was a SUPER popular episode. You'll hear the 5 questions to ask each other every week, what to discuss about your relationship every quarter of the year, and big picture topics to stay on track on a yearly basis.
We promise, these can be accomplished in just a few minutes and will help you prevent miscommunications, tackle issues proactively, and experience more harmony in the relationship!
To go with the episode, get our BRAND NEW Family Meeting Guide & Templates here:
https://thecouplesexperience.com/family
Also from the episode, you can get the Making Up & Moving Forward Guide if you need more guidance on how to repair things that were unresolved.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:02.7 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate |
| 0:07.7 | like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:12.9 | I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.6 | And this episode is about how to have a relationship check-in that's constructive and time-efficient. |
| 0:25.2 | And this is an update to our family meeting worksheet. |
| 0:29.1 | Yes. |
| 0:29.4 | So in 2021, we had put up a podcast episode about the family meeting worksheet and process |
| 0:35.0 | that we used on a frequent basis. And we had so many people |
| 0:41.0 | say they loved it. They loved the questions that it provided. But we have some updates because, |
| 0:47.6 | you know, we work with couples all day, every day, and we get the insider scoop as to what |
| 0:52.2 | challenges you all encounter no matter how busy you are. |
| 0:56.8 | And that's one of the big things we hear over and over again. |
| 0:59.2 | We're so busy. |
| 1:00.1 | We barely have a few minutes just us. |
| 1:02.6 | You know, we're sometimes crossing paths. |
| 1:04.6 | And so people will say we don't have time to have these maybe longer check-ins. |
| 1:10.5 | So you're going to love this episode because |
| 1:12.4 | we actually have a breakdown of how to have a check-in weekly that can be done in like five to seven |
| 1:19.7 | minutes, if that's all you have. We have a quarterly check-in and then we have a yearly check-in. |
| 1:24.9 | But before we get into the structure of what's included in that, Aaron, why is a check-in |
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