How to Have a Weekly "Family Meeting" to Stay to on Track in Your Relationship: Episode 168
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Do you and your partner feel perfectly aligned and on the same page? Do you ever feel caught off guard by a comment your partner makes about being dissatisfied somewhere in your relationship? If so, it's time for a Family Meeting Check-in!
We define a"Family Meeting" as: a designated time to have an intentional, judgment-free conversation together as you discuss your relationship + life. You each get to share your satisfaction in the 9 core areas of your relationship/life, and openly listen to each other.
A few critical benefits of these "Family Meetings":
- it eliminates that frustrating moments where you blindside each other throughout the week to discuss things when it's not the best time
- you can address challenges or areas of lower satisfaction before it BUILDS up into resentment
- you ensure you're on the same page as a couple and feel like a team
- it creates emotional safety and intimacy
But here's what a weekly Family Meeting is NOT: a time to defend yourselves, point fingers, complain, or start a fight.
In this episode you will hear us go through our own family meeting, so that you have the tools to communicate with each other to be even more on the same page.
Resources For Your Relationship:
1) To get your Family Meeting Worksheet either:
DM us on IG @Meet_TheFreemans or
Email: connect@newpowercouples.com
2) Order our newest book, The Argument Hangover, and get over $200 of free bonus gifts (like the mini course and a 90 minute training)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:04.7 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:10.0 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:14.2 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And today's all about how to have a weekly family |
| 0:18.7 | meeting to stay on track in your relationship. |
| 0:22.2 | And we talked about this on social media recently, and everyone was like, I love this idea. |
| 0:26.8 | I love the idea of being able to have this conversation. |
| 0:29.7 | And the way we like to introduce having a weekly family meeting is thinking of it like a huddle. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, I didn't play sports, but when I see them, you know, on the field doing it, what I imagine is that they are coming together to check in and go, how are we doing? You know, how's this going? How are you doing with your role? How are you doing with your role? Where do we need to make improvements? Aaron, you know better because you've actually been. I did this one probably. But that's what's happening, right? It's a check-in. Yeah, it's a check-in. |
| 0:57.9 | You know... Where do we need to make improvements? Erin, you know better because you've actually been. It would have been better if I did this one probably. |
| 0:55.0 | But that's what's happening, right? |
| 0:56.2 | It's a check-in. Yeah, it's a check-in. You know, you can start in a certain way, but if you don't have a way to see your progress, how well you're doing, then you're not setting yourself up for success. You're not going to win the game. in a huddle or in in a timeout in basketball, right, you're going to look and say, how is this play working? Okay, or the defense is now running a |
| 1:16.7 | zone on us. So we need to do a two one two, right? So it's really looking at the performance of the team and |
| 1:24.1 | the plays you're running. And it's so critical for relationships here because |
| 1:27.9 | you can easily get into places where you make assumptions so true and so often when we're |
| 1:35.0 | doing the full relationship assessments with couples that we do in our courses and in our coaching |
| 1:39.5 | many times individuals think oh yeah like our sex intimacy is great because it's great for you but |
| 1:47.7 | just because it is one way for you doesn't mean it's that way for your partner and the thing is |
| 1:53.2 | though we do not ask our partners about places and their level of satisfaction and areas of |
| 2:00.0 | relationship that we have good for us. |
| 2:04.1 | I'm not going to ask you. I'm not going to think to ask you about that, right? Well, me, |
| 2:07.9 | the general partner. And you don't communicate that way usually, right? You don't set the time |
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