Rebuilding Trust After Promises Are Broken (Small or Big): Episode 191
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Trust can be broken or weakened by both the big things and the build up of many smaller broken promises. Trust is such a foundational aspect of a relationship that without it, it's harder to have respect, love, and passion for your partner.
In this episode we go deeper into rebuilding trust, whether you are the partner that doesn't trust, or if you realize that you are the one that has contributed to the decline of trust. We were asked to take this topic deeper from a listener of the podcast that emailed us, because she was experiencing unreliability on the side of her partner. (We so appreciate you for requesting topics to cover!)
Today you will hear about the small things that lead a partner to not "count on" the other, what the real source is of broken promises, and 3 steps to take to rebuild trust as a team.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.6 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team |
| 0:11.3 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:15.2 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. This episode is about rebuilding trust after promises |
| 0:20.6 | are broken, both small and big promises. |
| 0:23.9 | Trust is always a big topic. |
| 0:26.4 | And I think this episode is going to apply if, you know, big things have been broken in your |
| 0:31.3 | relationship. |
| 0:32.0 | But also really pay attention if you feel like the small things have added up. |
| 0:37.3 | And just to give you context as to where |
| 0:39.1 | this came from, we received an email question from a listener, which by the way, we love hearing |
| 0:44.5 | from all of you. Like, we love that you're engaging with the content, asking us follow up questions. |
| 0:49.9 | And this listener was saying, hey, I listened to your episode on reliability and follow through, |
| 0:55.8 | which by the way is episode 178, if you haven't listened, a really important episode. |
| 1:01.0 | And this person wanted us to go deeper into rebuilding broken trust. |
| 1:07.1 | And in this relationship in particular, it was like the small things adding up. Like, |
| 1:13.3 | okay, they keep saying these things and these things and this doesn't happen and this doesn't |
| 1:16.9 | happen. And it's like all these small things really adding up. So we said, let's do it. We |
| 1:21.0 | listen to the listeners. And the thing about trust is it's really not about the big events. |
| 1:28.4 | It's not really like the physical or emotional infidelity. |
| 1:33.3 | Those things are obviously those bigger breaches of trust. |
| 1:38.1 | But trust in a relationship for the majority of time is in the small things. |
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