Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast.

We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros,

fight smarter, and stay on the same team.

No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman.

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know it says the Freeman's.

And this episode is Marriage Trials to Triumph, our story of overcoming the hardest two years

in our life and how we became stronger from it.

There's a lot of new people that have found us, and we wanted to recap some of our story

if you're a new listener, because it's a really significant week. We are actually surrounded in our home by boxes.

We are moving from where we're living now just a couple miles. We're at our dining room table if you want to just get the picture.

Yep. We are moving just a couple miles away, but into a new home that we have been building, which you may be like, okay, that happens all the time for people.

Maybe that's not that exciting.

But it's really symbolic for us because of what we have overcome the last twoish years,

which we're going to describe to you.

But we're not going to just leave it at our story, which we do hope gives you inspiration,

motivation for whatever you experience in your marriage. But we're

going to give you some real takeaways. Like how do we overcome these trials? Because that's the

thing. In marriage, if you're going to be together for decades, you're going to face some challenges.

Harder times. Plot twists, even in life, you know,

those sudden like, oh, plot twist, you weren't expecting it.

And that doesn't mean it's all hard, but we do feel like that some people have this expectation,

both with life and with marriage, that something is wrong if we face trials.

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