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 am one of your host, Erin Freeman.

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

And this is a special episode, which we might say just about every time, but actually

as special as yesterday was our anniversary, and we posted about it, right? And we got a lot of

comments on how we renew our vows. Exactly. In a sense, right? So this is the marriage vow

renewal exercise that we do actually just about every year.

Every year. And in a way, we kind of audit these throughout the year.

Because just like creating, you know, New Year's resolutions isn't enough to review your

life and create goals, right? I believe, we believe this is why we do this, that just creating promises

on your wedding day and then never coming back to it is not enough. I mean, think about it. Some of

you got married 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and beyond. But even if you just got married last year,

do you actually remember what you promised? Like, have you thought about it? And I know some people choose to do like the traditional, I promise to love, honor, and cherish you. Sickness and a hell. Right. And then others, you know, create their own, like we wrote our own vows. But you have to ask yourself, like, have you actually checked in? Hmm, what did I promise my partner and have them been keeping those?

Yeah, key question.

That's second one for sure.

And I think sometimes with the marriage vows, it's conceptual, it's kind of vague, right?

And nothing wrong with it.

You went with like traditional vows.

It's just not very specific.

And if when you've been listening, you really need like specific agreements and promises,

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