Moving From a Functional Marriage to Being Fulfilled and Emotionally Close: Episode 372
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If you are not experiencing this already, having a structured, reliable, and well functioning marriage is definitely a goal. This brings a great sense of relief, peace, and being a team. However, at different times for each of you, there will be a feeling that something is missing, that there is something more that is needed. A marriage is meant to go beyond the function and to strong connection and closeness.
What can make this slightly complicated is the timing for each of you, but also the activities that have you each feel connected are going to be different. This is where communication and meaningful conversations are needed that go beyond the daily tasks. You will also need to gain awareness of the more subtle "ways of being" with each other if you truly want to enter the state of connection, joy, closeness, and love. In this episode you will hear about the state of function and how to move into the state of connection and closeness in ways that are meaningful to each of you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower 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, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.6 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about moving from a functional marriage to being fulfilled and emotionally close. |
| 0:23.7 | And this is something that's really important to focus on as you close out this year and start the new year, |
| 0:30.9 | feeling intentional, feeling focused as a couple. |
| 0:35.0 | Because life... |
| 0:35.5 | And with a new possibility, I would say. |
| 0:36.6 | A new possibility. |
| 0:37.4 | You don't want to just survive marriage, right? |
| 0:39.9 | You want to feel as though you are moving forward together. |
| 0:43.6 | You continue to get better in marriage even through the different seasons. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, before we get into the content, which we've got some great stuff here, we have been |
| 0:53.1 | keeping a little secret. We've |
| 0:54.9 | hinted at it over the last few weeks in the episode. And I know you guys have been so eager |
| 0:59.8 | and so patient and waiting to hear. So here's the thing. From the over 36,000 couples who |
| 1:07.0 | have participated in our popular 30-day couples challenges. |
| 1:13.9 | We've got the prioritizing us and the rebuilding us challenge. |
| 1:21.7 | We have continued to receive countless requests to make another round of prompts, |
| 1:24.8 | especially like the prioritizing us. |
| 1:26.4 | People really loved it. |
| 1:27.5 | They felt more connected. |
| 1:29.1 | Their communication was on point. |
| 1:31.3 | They were feeling a new energy in their relationship. |
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