Reliability + Follow-Through: 3 Ways to Cultivate These Traits in Your Marriage: Episode 177
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The most attractive trait in a partner is reliability! So what is reliability really? Well, can your partner count on you to follow through, or do you make promises and then have excuses for why it didn't happen?
The thing is, how reliable you are in your partnership directly impacts how much they can TRUST you. Now you might think we're just speaking about the "big" things...but actually, it's also about the small promises that you make that really add up to their perception of you.
In this episode you will hear:
- The importance of reliability and follow-through in a relationship
- 5 different areas where you need to be reliable
- The 3 ways to cultivate these traits in your partnership
- What do do if your partner hasn't been following through
Resources For Your Relationship:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.5 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stand the same team |
| 0:11.2 | 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. Welcome to this episode about reliability and follow through. Three ways to |
| 0:22.7 | cultivate these traits in your marriage. And this is a big one. It's a huge one because when we |
| 0:28.3 | think about being a great partner and being with a great partner, it is about reliability. |
| 0:35.8 | Can I count on you? And this has actually been a really common thread |
| 0:40.3 | in our sessions recently. I always, you know, we take notes a lot during our session and we look for themes. |
| 0:46.3 | And what's really a commonality between all these couples and a big one that we were hearing over and over was, |
| 0:52.3 | I feel like you say these things and I don't see the |
| 0:54.7 | follow through, or I can't always count on you to be reliable. And so we noted this. And |
| 1:00.7 | obviously on Instagram, we can tell it's already a hit. So it's definitely striking a chord. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, it's one of those things that are not the top of mind challenge that any couple is facing. |
| 1:11.6 | We always say, it doesn't even come from us, you're never upset for the reason you think you are, |
| 1:16.6 | but you will react, you will have issue with, you might criticize or get defensive with your partner |
| 1:22.6 | about something and it really can be the underlining source being that you don't trust your |
| 1:30.1 | partner or they don't follow through you don't see them as reliable and this is probably one of |
| 1:36.5 | those biggest things right that's not top of mind is the source but why is this really important right |
| 1:41.6 | why do we care what's the real impact on a partner that doesn't feel like their partner is reliable? |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah. So reliability and following through is critical to your partner and it is how you maintain trust, safety, and certainty. |
| 1:58.9 | You know, everyone's wondering like either how do we rebuild trust, |
| 2:01.6 | how do we maintain trust, you know, all of those things. And trust is built by following through, |
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