Should One Partner Have to Sacrifice a Want/Need to Make The Other Happy or Comfortable? Episode 216
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We posted this question on IG and got a TON of interesting comments. A bit of a range in answers from "NOPE, definitely not" to "Shouldn't we focus on sacrificial love and put others before ourselves"? So we're going to address some of the nuances of the comments and some specific points to really answer this question.
We admit that like a few comments, it's not just a yes or no answer. So in this episode we will cover what needs to be in place and how can needs/wants get communicated to not run into having to sacrifice but find what is best for the relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate |
| 0:07.3 | like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:11.8 | I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:13.3 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.3 | And this episode is a great one about should one partner have to sacrifice a want or need to make the other |
| 0:23.9 | happy or even comfortable and we posted this on instagram it was like a controversial relationship |
| 0:29.8 | question and we put it out there and we provided some examples and we said we want to know |
| 0:34.4 | like you guys write the comments tell us what you think and we received a lot of interesting comments ranging from some people saying, like, nope, definitely not. You know, just simple as that. Like, no, you should not have to sacrifice. And then all the way ranging to some people putting, well, what about sacrificial love? Shouldn't we put others before ourselves? And then a lot in between. So it's |
| 0:55.4 | very interesting to read the different perspectives. And even in between being that it's not as |
| 0:59.5 | cut and dry as a yes or no, which I think is probably where we're going to land here today. |
| 1:03.8 | Exactly. So this is a question we wanted to put out there and kind of see because there are |
| 1:08.1 | different philosophies about how much you should quote unquote sacrifice or compromise in a partnership. There are some people who believe that marriage |
| 1:15.3 | is all about that, right? And it's all about kind of whatever the other person needs. It's all |
| 1:21.1 | about them. And then there's other people who have it kind of like actually, nope, here's me |
| 1:25.5 | and take it or leave it. Right there's yeah we'll talk about a great |
| 1:29.8 | comment and you know there's a particular thing in society right that's about this superpower of |
| 1:37.4 | an individual right and i think that's a very interesting point to talk about how that kind of dynamic that I'm my own |
| 1:47.5 | divine. This is my truth. This is me. And this is how it's going to be kind of almost woke |
| 1:54.8 | mentality, if you will. And how does it actually fit into a relationship nowadays? Right. And we're not |
| 1:59.8 | saying woke mentality like to mock anyone, but it's just like sometimes they can |
| 2:03.8 | have the perspective of, yeah, it is about me, right? |
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