Staying on the Same Team in Good and Bad Moments: Episode 386
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Things are going to happen in your life and marriage. When they do, are you on the same team or find that you turn against each other? This is one of the most important ideas when it comes to having a successful marriage. As hard as we try we just can't avoid conflict or even external situations happening in our lives that we do not like. But the differnece for successful marriages is that they stay on the same team and do not let these stressors amplify an already difficult situation.
In this episode today you will hear 5 principles for staying on the same team when both small and big things happen in your life together. Remember that whatever situation you find yourselves in is temporary but how you handle it can have a lasting effect on your marriage. When you handle them together you build trust, confidence and your bond; when turn against each other, you make it worse, lose trust, and build resentment.
Relationship Resources ⏬
As mentioned in the episode, get the Family Meeting Guide to help you navigate challenging moments and seasons with the weekly, quarterly, and yearly check-ins to stay on the same team no matter the challenge 👉 https://thecouplesexperience.com/family
Alternatively, you can get the Family Meeting Guide for free as a bonus for starting the Prioritize Us 30-Day Couples Challenge starting in 2 weeks at 👉 https://mycoupleschallenge.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.4 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the |
| 0:10.3 | same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm |
| 0:14.1 | Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freemans. And this episode is about staying |
| 0:18.3 | on the same team in good and bad moments. |
| 0:21.3 | And I'll tell you, we have needed to remind each other that we're on the same team a few |
| 0:27.1 | times, which is a good thing, right? |
| 0:28.4 | We all need that reminder from time to time. |
| 0:31.0 | And the last couple weeks were definitely not our norm. |
| 0:34.8 | We were traveling both for Aaron's 40th, which a lot of you probably saw the |
| 0:39.7 | surprise trip that I planned for him. It turned out pretty good, right? It was the best. |
| 0:43.7 | 12 out of 10 experience. And then after that, going to Ohio, see, that's where Aaron's family's from. |
| 0:51.5 | And now we have a vacation home there. And so sky was there. |
| 0:54.5 | We had spring break. And so being on the road, right, it's shaking up your routine. You're out of your |
| 1:01.4 | comfort zone and travel. We all know it can be kind of stressful for couples. That'll come up even in |
| 1:07.8 | our sessions, like just tension, disagreements. So with all that said, |
| 1:12.3 | we have very much gotten present to the power of remembering that we're on the same team |
| 1:18.0 | with both little things, or it might seem little, but also some bigger things. So a couple |
| 1:22.5 | quick examples before we go into specific points for how to stay on the same team. So we've been laughing, right? |
| 1:30.0 | We're coming back on a totally different time zone. And our daughter, she's three, |
| 1:34.6 | she has been waking up way earlier than normal. Okay, this is for the parents. Yeah. So we would |
| 1:41.2 | normally wake up well before her. And that's been a game changingchanging habit for us, is to not wake up with her, but to wake up at least an hour before her. |
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