My Parents Are Still Married, Jocelyn's Got Divorced: How Both Upbringings Impact Our Marriage Now Episode 95
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If you are like Aaron and had a loving upbringing with lots of support from your parents, that means you would be better set up for a strong relationship rather than if you were like Jocelyn and had your parents go through a divorce or tough upbringing right? NOPE! Did you ever think that whatever your past upbringing, it could be what is causing any hiccups in your current relationship?
In this episode will hear each of our stories about how we grew up and how Aaron was limited in being able to express and feel love by not seeing examples of emotion and how to handle any conflicts growing up. While Jocelyn's story is one about feeling she had to be the rescuer and felt there needed to be drama to feel that her partner cared about her.
Whatever your past upbringing, you are not just interacting with who your partner is right now today, but you are being influenced by your own past examples that are most likely not in the best service of your relationship. This episode is about you bringing awareness into just what that unconscious behavior and impact might be.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Coubles podcast. We're here. You're going to get modern, |
| 0:04.9 | non-boring relationship advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and ultimately |
| 0:11.2 | stay on the same team no matter the challenge that comes up. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:16.6 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just call us the Freeman's. And today we have a special |
| 0:20.7 | episodes. We're going to be telling a little bit more of our own story, where, yes, my parents are still married and Jocelyn, yours got divorced, but both of these upbringings have impacted our marriage. And we want to share a lot more about that, right? Yeah, I think this is really important. might not be as, this episode is not going to be as tactical, practical skill teaching. |
| 0:41.6 | Next episode, we're going to go into that more. |
| 0:43.4 | But I really encourage you to listen because I think a lot of you will relate to our stories |
| 0:47.9 | and our upbringings, but you're going to have many a haas along the way. |
| 0:51.8 | And here's a thing. |
| 0:52.8 | Your upbringing without awareness, |
| 0:56.0 | does impact your relationship right now. And it might not be something you talk about on your |
| 1:01.6 | first or second or third date. And we actually know a lot of couples who've been married for years |
| 1:06.4 | and didn't really dig deep into their upbringing. So we're going to go into the share store. I'm excited to ask you some questions, Aaron. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, really? |
| 1:13.6 | I have to be honest here in the beginning. |
| 1:15.6 | I have not subscribed too much to this idea of past or a lot of people like to talk about the inner child work. |
| 1:24.6 | I just don't like going in the past necessarily, hence why we do |
| 1:28.9 | coaching, right? We don't do therapy. We don't do counseling. We don't dive into and dig, |
| 1:32.8 | keep on digging in the past as I'm more interested in creating the life and a relationship that |
| 1:38.2 | couples want. That's what all of this is about. And at the same time, I have to acknowledge that, |
| 1:46.3 | yes, even though both of us have these different upbrings i mean my parents even guess just to jump right into it right my parents were so loving |
| 1:53.6 | and always out for my brother and i they showed up at every sporting event uh my dad early on |
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