Relationship Satisfaction and Stability: What Really Keeps Couples Together? Episode 310
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
What truly determines the health and success of a romantic relationship? While popular resources online suggest differences in personality traits, attachment styles, past traumas, or external stressors as contributing factors, the episode sheds light on a more precise concept – "relationship stability."
Psychologists have coined this term to better measure long-term success in relationships, ultimately linked to the duration of the partnership along with a sense of fulfillment, not driven by obligation or fear. The VSA model of Marriage, encompassing Vulnerabilities, Stress, and Adaptation, takes center stage, highlighting the significance of effective communication, problem-solving, compromise, support, and the ability to adapt and evolve behavior to nurture a healthy and satisfying marriage.
This episode invites you to reflect on their own relationships, emphasizing that it's not about what happens to you, but how you respond when vulnerabilities surface amidst external stressors. Also, make sure you join the upcoming 30-Day Couples Challenge here. Receive daily prompts to fill your "Love Accounts," improve your communication, and become more connected.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast, we're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.8 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and |
| 0:10.6 | stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:14.9 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.7 | And this episode is about relationship, satisfaction, and stability, and what |
| 0:22.6 | really keeps couples together. It can feel like a mystery these days, right? Especially with the |
| 0:27.1 | abundance of information from books and podcast episodes and different influencers you follow |
| 0:33.5 | and YouTube videos, it can feel like you are ping ponging all around. Okay, wait, no, no, no, |
| 0:39.0 | it's inner child work. We need to do that. We need to resolve our trauma, right? Oh, we need to work |
| 0:43.9 | at our attachment styles. Oh, no, I read this book and we need to work on our communication. |
| 0:48.3 | Oh, we need to work on masculine feminine dynamics. Right? And that's just listing a few things. That's what's going to keep us together. |
| 0:57.2 | And I'm sure that you all would agree, I would hope, that the goal isn't to just stay together. |
| 1:02.6 | Of course, that is something we hope and wish for, especially if you have started a family |
| 1:07.3 | and you really want your family to not only stay together but thrive together. |
| 1:11.4 | But we don't just want couples to be together for decades just to be in the same house and |
| 1:18.8 | survive life together. We want to thrive together. And that's why this episode is going to |
| 1:25.1 | also be about satisfaction. |
| 1:33.8 | You know, it's a question that psychology has gotten interested in answering when it comes to marriages, right? |
| 1:35.6 | What determines relationship health or success? |
| 1:38.5 | And, you know, I think psychologists are interested in this because they like to have an answer |
| 1:43.0 | because now they can have a formula to say |
| 1:45.1 | can we predict the success of a particular marriage and wouldn't you like something to predict |
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