Navigating the 7 Stages of Marriage and Their Usefulness to You Right Now: Episode 343
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Which of these 7 stages of marriage are you two in right now? Knowing this not only gives you perspective about navigating your current season, but also what's ahead of you in the bigger picture of being married for many years.
It is unrealistic to think that every season of marriage should be the same, or will be in the same order as another couple's. But also, we should be able to navigate some of the harder stages more quickly so they don't last too long or rob us of joy and fulfillment in living life together.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.4 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team. |
| 0:10.7 | No matter of the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.8 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.4 | And this episode is navigating the seven stages of marriage in their usefulness to you right now. |
| 0:22.3 | I can't wait to hear which stage that you think you're in, both you, Aaron, and the listener. |
| 0:28.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:29.1 | I want to know which stage you think we're in. |
| 0:31.0 | But also as the listener, send us a message on Instagram or respond to our newsletter. |
| 0:35.1 | We love learning those things about you and what you take away from |
| 0:39.3 | the podcast. Now, to start this off, the seven stages of marriage comes from a book published in |
| 0:44.5 | 2006 by a marriage therapist, Rita DeMaria, and a co-author, Surrey Harar. And you've heard us talk about seasons of marriage and that we feel strongly |
| 0:59.9 | that marriage is about this positive progression, but the understanding that like a stock market |
| 1:08.7 | volatility over time, there's going to be course corrections. |
| 1:12.1 | Okay, so if you look at the trend, you want that to be upward and these seasons can be |
| 1:17.3 | times where you have more external stresses. You may have more things that are like your |
| 1:24.9 | conflict cycle coming up between the two of you. |
| 1:29.8 | So you go through more challenging times. |
| 1:36.3 | And for us, that's going to repeat itself, you know, based on external stresses, based on various things. |
| 1:37.6 | And so we want to frame that inside of these seven stages that have been outlined. |
| 1:42.3 | Now, we would say and are going to say in this podcast |
| 1:45.5 | that we don't think that every couple will go through every stage and not necessarily in this |
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