Steps to Work Through a Hard Season in a Marriage: Episode 291
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
You know that conflicts will happen in a marriage, this truth should not be resisted or avoided. However what if that same conflict comes up again and what if that turns into a pattern that shows up over and over again? This is what creates a hard season in marriage. But if this goes on for multiple weeks, months, or even years then you feel as if nothing is going to change and you lose hope in the marriage.
Some people see ending the marriage as the only option, because honestly who would want to continue to expose themselves to the same pain over and over. You need relief… and we agree. But this episode gives you 7 steps to take to get yourself out of this pattern and subsequently out of this hard season in your marriage. It's not easy, but then again neither is this current situation and neither is a divorce. So really this is the best option for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.3 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and |
| 0:10.5 | stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know it says the Freeman's. |
| 0:20.2 | No, I laugh because |
| 0:21.2 | of what we're talking about today, which is the steps to work through a hard season in your marriage. |
| 0:28.5 | Yes, we are all going to have a hard season, whether that season feels like a couple weeks, |
| 0:34.6 | a couple of months. For some, it can feel like, wow, it has been a hard year or a |
| 0:39.0 | couple of years. So we really want you to walk away from this episode feeling like you can |
| 0:45.1 | work through it and come out stronger on the other side. And I laughed because it was ironic |
| 0:51.8 | how the title had to do with what this episode is about. |
| 0:55.8 | And I've thought a lot about this and probably because the number of conversations we're |
| 1:02.2 | having with couples now that are really in a hard season seems to be around the highest that |
| 1:09.3 | it's been for us. |
| 1:10.1 | Where before it was like let's improve communication and conflict resolution, you know, |
| 1:14.4 | right now it does seem to be like it's just a really hard season for couples. |
| 1:19.1 | Now, I want to segue into this because this isn't what this episode is going to be about, |
| 1:25.5 | but when I really think about as an individual partner, right, because you listening, |
| 1:31.4 | that's really what we're talking to is your personal experience being in a marriage. |
| 1:37.9 | And so it can feel very challenging to you. |
| 1:42.4 | What is going on for you or for any one of us is literally just a series of |
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