Passion, Closeness, and Commitment: Maintaining the 3 Components of Love in Marriage: Episode 325
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What is Love in a very practical sense? We hear people say "we fell in love" or "we fell out of love"... so what is causing this experience of love? Or why do couples start to feel more like roommates?
As the years pass, it can be easier to fall into what is called "empty love" or "friendship love" and miss the 3rd element of love that we all crave.
So dive into today's episode where you'll hear:
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The 3 components of love
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Variations of relationships that have one or 2 components but are missing the 3rd
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How to maintain "complete love" encompassing all 3 components
Also, utilize our resources to put this into practice:
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Our "Prioritize Us" 30-Day Couples Challenge is open for just a couple more days.
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The Family Meeting guide for weekly, quarterly, and yearly check-ins
3. Or see all of our resources are here (including in-person events & coaching)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:06.2 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team |
| 0:11.4 | no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:15.6 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is the three components of love and maintaining complete love throughout the |
| 0:24.3 | years. |
| 0:24.6 | And we'll describe what complete love is. |
| 0:27.1 | We're not going to keep you in suspense too long. |
| 0:28.8 | So let's actually lay out what we're going to cover today. |
| 0:31.2 | Because love, it almost can seem like this word, like when you hear goals, for example, |
| 0:35.5 | and you're like, whatever goals, I've heard that before. |
| 0:38.1 | Oh, love. |
| 0:39.5 | It's something we all want. |
| 0:41.4 | It's something we all want to maintain. |
| 0:44.2 | It's also difficult to describe. |
| 0:46.6 | And what is it when people say, oh, I've fallen out of love. |
| 0:49.6 | We fell out of love. |
| 0:50.8 | What does that even really mean? |
| 0:52.9 | And so people are always trying to describe what it is, |
| 0:56.1 | how to maintain it, how to get there. So we're going to go into one model by psychologist Robert |
| 1:01.2 | Sternberg back in 1986 called The Triangle Theory of Love, not to be confused with a love triangle, |
| 1:08.4 | right? Where it's three people. And we're not talking about three people in a relationship together, right? Where it's three people. We're not talking about three people |
| 1:11.3 | in a relationship together, right? The triangle theory of love and his three components of love. |
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