Rebuilding a Marriage After a Hard Season: Episode 390
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
"Throughout the course of your life, you will be married 2–3 times. For some, this will be to the same person."This sentiment is becoming more widely recognized, and it means you need to be ready for your marriage to evolve. Those who aren't ready (or who don't accept this) often go through harder seasons and are more likely to split from their partners. We will all face difficult chapters in the lifespan of a marriage, but those who accept the evolution are the ones who can re-make their marriage with the same partner.
Today's episode is about the importance of being able to rebuild a marriage when a couple arrives at this crossroad. You'll hear the 7 steps couples go through to repair and rebuild their marriage for the next season ahead. This is one of the hardest things to do, so it's not expected that you'll take all these steps now, or even on your own. But knowing this is the path to rebuilding can give you clarity and hope that you can turn your marriage into what you want it to be.
This episode is meant to help you understand the process and then use one of these resources to guide you through practical steps in this difficult (but ultimately rewarding) phase of marriage. 👇
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Start the 30-Day "Rebuilding Us Couples Challenge", to get daily prompts straight to your inbox that give you the steps to have these rebuilding conversations.
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Use the "Steps to Rebuild a Marriage Guide" to see and follow the tangible steps of the conversations in each of the 7 steps discussed in this episode. Both resources can be found here: MeetTheFreemans.com/rebuild
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate |
| 0:07.1 | like pros, fight smarter and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:11.4 | I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:15.8 | And this episode is an important one. |
| 0:18.0 | We haven't really talked about this for two years. |
| 0:20.2 | It's rebuilding a marriage |
| 0:22.6 | after a hard season. Now today there's a number of different ways we want to go. We're going to |
| 0:28.9 | give you seven steps, but the way we think it'll be best is if you think of them as seven ideas. |
| 0:42.0 | And so we'll really give you these ideas as things to think about. And if it's just one that you take forward, I think it's worth it. We also want to say |
| 0:46.5 | that this topic is a big topic. It does take a lot of effort, a lot of intention. There are a lot |
| 0:53.2 | of steps. There's much that you have to do |
| 0:55.6 | in terms of how you're going to listen to each other because we are talking about actually |
| 0:59.9 | repairing and rebuilding from a hard season. And there are a lot of conversations to have so that both |
| 1:07.6 | people can be on this path. So that being said, you know, we knew that bringing this |
| 1:14.6 | topic in a podcast form was kind of worth it because we haven't talked about it in a while. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, we also have two main resources. We have the rebuilding us challenge and the steps to |
| 1:26.3 | rebuild a marriage guide. |
| 1:28.9 | We'll give you that link later, but those are the guides that you'll want to use to help you |
| 1:34.0 | take this step by step. |
| 1:36.1 | Okay, so as we get into this, you know, I was reminded of this topic because of this phrase |
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