Navigating Make It or Break It Moments in Marriage: Episode 361
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today we explore the turning points where marriages either survive or fall apart, when they hit that "make it for break it" decision point. We've seen five couples end their relationships recently, one even filing papers yesterday, yet none of them reached out for support from us. Given marriage is what we do, it came as a shock to us when we heard the news.
We know many people have this expereince when they hear about friends ending their relationships. So we want to give you the reasons why couples get to this point and WAYS to work at it. In this episode we provide you with clarity as to the build up that gets couples to this point, but also how they can get THROUGH it together. Not just to survive, but to become more understanding, connected, and stronger as a team to face future challenges!
Relationship Resources:
The "Rebuilding Us" 30-Day Couples Challenge, The Steps to Rebuild a Marriage Guide, and more all LINKED HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.9 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:11.6 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:16.1 | but you all just know it says the Freeman's. And this episode is about navigating the make it or break it moments in marriage. |
| 0:22.8 | So whether you feel you're in one of these make it or break it moments or someone that you |
| 0:27.4 | know and you're trying to understand it more, it's not an easy stage to be in. |
| 0:32.2 | And we really extend our hearts out to anyone going through this because we know it's |
| 0:36.1 | really confusing. |
| 0:37.2 | It's a really uncertain time. |
| 0:39.1 | There might even be some like sense of not wanting to tell people that you're in this. |
| 0:43.6 | And I think that's because our culture and our society still, like you still say, oh, |
| 0:48.1 | we're good. |
| 0:48.7 | We're just busy. |
| 0:49.9 | And we've known personally five couples in this last year, including one yesterday, a family |
| 0:58.2 | member that we found out filed for divorce had no clue. By the way, none of these five |
| 1:02.7 | couples that we know ever reached out to us for support. And that's part of the vicious cycle |
| 1:07.9 | that happens is that people don't reach out for support, not that they had |
| 1:11.6 | to reach out to us specifically, but a lot of them not even reaching out for support from |
| 1:15.5 | anyone. And we're going to get further into that. Yeah, I do want to say, this has been a part |
| 1:20.7 | of a struggle for me personally. It's brought some sadness. It's brought some different feelings. |
| 1:28.9 | Now, those of you listening are not particularly marriage coaches or do what we do. |
| 1:34.8 | So a little bit different context. |
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