How to Keep The Experience of LOVE Alive Through Good + Challenging Seasons: Episode 181
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Of course you 'love' your partner, but what level of love and connection do you feel right now? You might "know that you love them," but right now, you can feel disconnected and experience a mediocre or even low level of love.
You do not want to assume that love will automatically be there in a long-term relationship. Sure, you can say "I love you" to each other all day long, yet still not FEEL an overwhelming sense of love in the partnership.
For many of us, we have mostly experienced love that is conditional or based on fleeting feelings. So how do you keep the experience of LOVE alive, even during challenging seasons?
In this episode you will hear:
- What love should not be based on
- The real foundation from where your love comes from
- How you can keep that experience of love alive, no matter the challenge or season that you are in.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.5 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team. |
| 0:11.2 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:15.1 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And today is about how to keep the experience of love alive through good and |
| 0:22.8 | challenging seasons. And really pick up on that. It's the experience of love that you're after. |
| 0:28.9 | It's not the assumed love. It's not, oh, well, we told each other we love each other. We're |
| 0:33.9 | married. We have kids together. We have a home together. We should know that we love |
| 0:37.9 | each other. That's not what today is going to be about, assumptions. And this is a really important |
| 0:43.4 | topic because, you know, when we start coaching with a lot of couples, one of the first questions |
| 0:48.5 | we ask at some point in either session one or session two is on a scale of one to ten, how full would you say your love |
| 0:57.3 | account is, aka how loved you feel in the relationship? And a lot of times the answer is a seven |
| 1:05.7 | or less. And that's from couples who've been together three years, 10 years, 30 years, right? |
| 1:11.4 | So it's not even just about time, like, well, we've been together a short amount of time or a lot of time. |
| 1:17.3 | It's not about time. |
| 1:18.7 | There are other things playing into people really feeling that love is present, not, oh, I know they love me. |
| 1:29.2 | And so I can just assume, you know, that it's there. No, actually experiencing love in the relationship. The love episode. |
| 1:35.6 | You know, I'm really excited for this type of conversation. And for you listening, maybe go ahead |
| 1:41.0 | and just rate yourself. Maybe you already did. Maybe that's the obvious thing the brain does when Jocelyn said one out of 10. |
| 1:46.8 | But really, like, think for yourself, what score would you give yourself? |
| 1:52.4 | And what we're going to go into much deeper here is, I mean, what are you even using to measure that, right? |
| 1:57.7 | Put that aside for now, rate yourself and we'll come really back to, |
| 2:02.6 | well, where do we get this measure? Like, how can we measure this? You know, something we do in the |
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