The Bare Minimum to Expect in a Marriage (from yourself): Episode 329
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
What is the bare minimum to expect in a marriage? You likely read that question and think about your expectations about your partner… However this is actually about what to expect from yourself!
There are a lot of social media comments on relationship posts that judge the portrayal of a partner. That shows that most people think about what changes a partner needs to make in order to better meet one's own needs. But that is quite backward. In this episode you will hear 6 traits that are the bare minimum to expect within yourself if you want to be a good partner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.7 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:11.0 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:15.4 | but you all just know it says the Freemans. And this episode is about the bare minimum to expect in the marriage. Which I know sounds like, why are we even is about the bare minimum to expect into marriage. |
| 0:21.5 | Which I know sounds like, why are we even talking about the bare minimum? |
| 0:26.2 | Because you know, if you listen to our episodes, this isn't about surviving life together. |
| 0:31.9 | We want you to thrive. |
| 0:33.4 | However, we feel we need to make this very clear because of some of the sad, frankly, |
| 0:39.7 | sad and horrifying comments that we've read in some of our posts more recently. |
| 0:44.6 | And in a way, you know, it was crazy because a lot of people called women insufferable. |
| 0:50.0 | For frankly, just wanting the bare minimum, which you're going to hear us describe, |
| 0:54.8 | even simply just a response from a partner. |
| 0:58.8 | Is that a lot to ask for? |
| 1:00.2 | And here's the change that we're making. |
| 1:01.5 | When you read this title, |
| 1:02.7 | you probably thought, and this was intentional, |
| 1:05.4 | that the bare minimum to expect would be about your partner, |
| 1:09.0 | but today is about the bare minimum to expect from yourself. |
| 1:13.2 | And you want to both listen to this one. So send it to your partner and say, we're both listening |
| 1:18.4 | to this. Commit to it yourself first. Because we both want to live into these standards. So let's |
| 1:24.0 | really dive in. We want to get right to it. Number one, bare minimum integrity. |
| 1:29.4 | Like, how does a relationship, if you think about the foundation to your partnership, the foundation |
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