Remembering the Reasons for Being Married (That Also Get You Through the Hard Seasons): Episode 367
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Whenever you meet an obstacle it is common to ask "why" it happened or even "why" you started down this particular path. You might even ask yourself why you got married or why you should continue when it feels particularly challenging with your partner. There are different ideas (and even studies) that give reasons for why people get married. The top ones are for love and companionship while the next on the list are to have kids, followed by financial and legal reasons.
In this episode you will hear us propose our reason for getting married, which is different from any you will find on these lists. If being married was only for love and companionship for example, how would you then handle the harder moments and when you aren't 'feeling' those positive emotions? Throughout this episode you will hear 3 alternatives for being married in hopes that it radically alters your current perceptions of difficulty in your marriage and gives you renewed strength to go forward 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 |
| 0:05.2 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the |
| 0:10.2 | same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm |
| 0:14.1 | Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is unique. |
| 0:18.5 | It's about remembering the reasons for being married. |
| 0:22.5 | Now, we'll put a caveat here that by remembering these things, it's also what will get you through hard seasons. |
| 0:31.0 | So as we dive into this, it really comes from two different places for us. Jocelyn will go more into what drove our conversation, |
| 0:39.5 | but in general, we have been thinking about this idea because, as you've heard us talk about in the last |
| 0:44.4 | couple of episodes, that many of our personal friends around us not only have been experiencing |
| 0:52.6 | a lot of challenges within their relationship. |
| 0:56.5 | You know, many of them are external, some of them being relational type stresses. |
| 1:03.0 | And for some of our friends, their marriages have come to a completion. |
| 1:08.9 | And even family members. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, family members too. |
| 1:11.8 | And so it really brings us to this point of thinking through, you know, like, why do people |
| 1:17.7 | get married? |
| 1:19.1 | Even though that's kind of like early in the stages, but the same idea, what is it that |
| 1:23.9 | we should remember about being married? |
| 1:27.1 | What should me, Aaron? What should I think about |
| 1:29.3 | when things seem to be difficult? Or just when we're together a long time and maybe we seem to have |
| 1:35.8 | lost something, I think there's always an importance of coming back to remembering why you do |
| 1:41.5 | anything. Why did I pursue this career? Why am I pursuing having children? |
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