Our 1st Year as Parents: How Our Marriage Has Changed, What's Felt Hardest, and What Keep Us United: Episode 269
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
For those of you that are parents, did that make your marriage more difficult or bring you both together? This could be asked about any challenge that you face as a couple, but parenting is definitely unique, at least it has been for us! We polled parents and found that it often changed their marriage in some common ways: they felt they became roommates, it was hard to make time for each other, more conflicts around different parenting styles, feeling of losing their identity, and the division of labor seemed unequal.
This episode is about us completing our first year as parents since Skye was born on Dec 21st, 2021. This has been the hardest year of our marriage, even though there were other outside forces at work beyond being parents. So in the end of the year fashion where lots of reflection happens; we are sharing about how this first year our parents have changed us, felt difficult, and keeps us united.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate |
| 0:08.5 | like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:13.0 | I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.0 | And this is our first year as parents in review and really sharing about how our marriage has changed, what's felt the hardest, and what keeps us united. |
| 0:28.1 | Yes, our baby girl, Sky Noelle, is one. And if you're listening to this when it comes out, then she's maybe one year and one day. |
| 0:36.9 | Her birthday is this week. She was born |
| 0:39.8 | 12 days late on December 21st, 2021. A lot of ones and two is there. And it's been quite the year for |
| 0:47.3 | us. And we've been reminiscing a bit, but we prepared some questions to ask each other, and we |
| 0:52.7 | haven't really prepared to answer them. So I'm actually |
| 0:55.2 | going to hear Aaron's answer for the first time just like you. But we wanted to do this as well |
| 1:01.0 | because we get a lot of questions from couples, both online and then the couples that we work with |
| 1:05.4 | privately in our sessions about how to really maintain the marriage once you become parents because it does add a layer |
| 1:13.9 | of complexity. |
| 1:14.7 | There are some very real challenges, but also some really amazing blessings that come with it. |
| 1:20.7 | And so I actually put up a question box on Instagram to just hear more recently how people's marriage has changed since becoming parents. |
| 1:31.2 | And some of the challenges, the very real challenges were submitted. |
| 1:34.5 | So just to read them, number one, we heard we became roommates, right? |
| 1:39.9 | And we can relate to that sometimes, right? |
| 1:41.7 | It is like you're just doing life. |
| 1:43.2 | Another one, hard to make time for each other. Another different parenting styles. One of us is more |
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