Is Your Heart Open or Closed to Your Partner? (and how to keep your heart open): Episode 384
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Set aside all the things you DO in your marriage and answer this question. Is your heart more open or closed to your partner? It is easy to get stuck in all of the tasks and responsibilities within a marriage and even think that getting these done is the main goal. But what is your experience like most of the time? You can get all your tasks done, but have a heart that is closed off to your partner and you experience disconnection, distance, unappreciation, or even resentment.
The true goal in a marriage is to have an open heart because this is when you experience love, connection, joy, understanding, happiness, and fulfillment. In this episode you will explore this idea of living more with an open heart and get 5 steps to take to keep from closing your heart off to your partner. In the end, we are here to "adult" and get done what we need to, but it will really only add to your marriage satisfaction if you complete these tasks while staying open to each other.
Relationship Resources:
Join the 30 Day Couples Challenge that is the best fit for keeping your heart open:
➡️ Level 1: "Prioritizing Us" is focused on strengthening your connection, communication, and fun "Love Deposit" ideas. LINKED HERE
➡️ Level 2: "Rebuilding Us" is focused on repairing and rebuilding after a harder season of marriage. LINKED HERE
🌟 For all the other resources, including the guides and webclasses: https://www.meetthefreemans.com/links
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.4 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay |
| 0:10.1 | on the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.6 | This will actually be a solo episode with just me here today. This is a topic that I wanted to |
| 0:20.8 | explore with all of you on my own, |
| 0:23.5 | something that I'm doing my own personal reflection and development on. |
| 0:29.4 | And so today is about really answering the question for yourself, |
| 0:34.2 | is your heart open or closed to your partner? And then today I want to explore really five |
| 0:40.8 | ways you can keep your heart more open. Now, where is this coming from? You know, we teach and |
| 0:47.9 | obviously you as a podcast listener know that we talk a lot about skills and tools, largely communication, conflict resolution, |
| 0:58.2 | self-regulation, repair, you know, all of those particular skills. And we have these |
| 1:04.6 | logical frameworks to really help you and to help all of us as couples, you know, navigate the times when we have upsets. |
| 1:15.3 | There are emotional disturbances. There's tension. We do more damage to each other. |
| 1:20.4 | And ultimately, we believe that having that kind of structure, you know, gives you a way |
| 1:25.8 | to do that scenario differently, you know, especially in the conflict cycle when |
| 1:31.9 | emotion is running high. Now with all that being said, we don't talk about this part too much. |
| 1:39.8 | Is your heart open or closed? And this is different from what you're actually doing. |
| 1:47.7 | So I know you've answered this question for yourself in your head, but I want you to think a little |
| 1:52.7 | bit deeper, regardless of what you do for your partner. |
| 1:58.4 | Because if you're like me at all we have our responsibilities we have |
| 2:03.1 | our agreements and you have integrity and you follow through at a high level right and that's |
| 2:09.2 | no matter what i'm feeling in our marriage between jocelyn and i i will always get those things |
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