Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship

advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and be on the same team no matter the challenge

that comes up. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you know us just as

the Freeman's. And today I love this topic. Number one, it is our 100th episode.

100.

And so what we really wanted to talk about was love is not enough.

Yeah, love is not enough, but we're not going to leave you there.

The three skills you need as a couple to have love always be present.

Yeah, I mean, what do you want to do when you're growing up? You want to fall in love with someone. But we know because we're getting DMs, emails, coaching calls scheduled that love doesn't mean that you're great communicators. Love doesn't mean that you're fair fighters. And so we're going to actually talk about, we're not going to give you cliches here. If this is one of your first times listening to us, we don't just give you these cliches of love is

all you need. You don't. You need more than love. You need skills. And none of us learned them in school.

There was no relationships 101. So the Freemans are your relationships 101. Yeah. And it's not enough just to expect that it's going to be there. Yeah. So it is a requirement. It's a foundation. It's necessary. But it's not enough as you progress through your relationship and through your marriage. It's not just going to be there. Yeah. So we're going to give you the three skills, of course, but we're going to give you three more reasons why it's not

enough even before we jump into that though we do want to say thank you for all the podcast reviews

as this is the last month and by the time this podcast comes out it'll be just maybe a day left

that what we're doing is donating to the Underground Railroad for every review that we get.

Yeah, Operation Underground Railroad is an organization that directly, like they literally

go rescue kids from human trafficking.

So we are donating on your behalf $10 to this incredible organization.

You can even see them on social media, say, we rescued 30 kids

today or we rescued 50 kids today. And so let us donate on your behalf. All you have to do is take

15 seconds of your time so that we do that. And you go, you scroll all the way down on iTunes

and write that. Some of you did just like a star. And so you gave us five stars, which we really appreciate. But please write a sentence or two about why. And it really does help, because couples read those and take your word for it before they listen to us. So if you get value from this, it literally would mean so much, and then we'll make that donation. So with that, should I read a review? Yeah, let's read a quick one. Okay, I love this one. So D. Martinez said, our second marriage to each other.

We are in our second marriage to each other. How awesome is that? We were originally married in 2005,

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