Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face.

I'm one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman.

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all know us as the Freeman's.

And in this second quick motivational episode of the week, we are talking about how to keep

the past from impacting your present.

And this one, while it's going to be short and sweet, I think is going to give you this zest,

this passion, this focus.

And your mindset, right?

Like mindset is so important when it comes to our relationship. And the reason we

chose this topic is because when we're interacting with some of you in the community, we get the

sense of this I'll try. I hope things change. I hope that we can let go of the past, right? And if we just have that sense of hope,

we can still feel like we're not in the driver's seat in our relationship. And we don't have as

much access to power and making a change and having that change last when we're only in a state

of, I hope and I'll try.

Yeah, and really what that does then is allows for past events, past conflicts, upsets,

disagreements, things that went unresolved.

Although if you listen to the episode from Tuesday, nothing's going unresolved now because

that was that topic, right?

But in the sense, the past keeps on creeping up into your present experience of sometimes

yourself, of your partner, of the relationship. It ruins your chances for creating a new future that you want or just starting to feel some regret.

You could be doubting yourself.

One of the stories I'm going to share today is sometimes by having the past creep into the present,

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