The "Love Account" Principle and Why You Feel Connected & Attracted to Each Other vs Not: Episode 393
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to assume that love alone should keep you feeling connected, but day-to-day life has a way of pulling couples apart without them even realizing it. In this episode, we break down why feeling loved and being committed are two different experiences — and what really determines whether you feel close or distant from your partner.
You'll learn the surprising factor that affects how you interpret everyday moments, why good intentions sometimes miss the mark, and what shifts help couples rebuild emotional closeness over time. If you want to feel more connected, seen, and understood, this conversation will give you the roadmap for the steps to take in your own marriage today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:04.9 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team |
| 0:09.9 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:14.0 | but you all just know it says the Freeman's. And now this episode is about the love account |
| 0:18.0 | principle and why you feel connected and attracted to each other versus when you don't. |
| 0:23.8 | And just do a check in right now. In your relationship, it is about to be May of 2025. |
| 0:30.6 | How connected do you feel to your partner? Or do you feel a little bit functional? Do you feel like you're just getting things |
| 0:38.2 | done? And yes, there's this person that's there, but you're just not feeling that draw to each other. |
| 0:44.9 | It's okay. Wherever you are, this episode is going to help you get a realistic and practical way |
| 0:52.3 | to create really an energetic shift in your relationship. |
| 0:56.7 | Now, I love a comp principle if you've been a listener or if you've coached with us or basically |
| 1:02.0 | seen anything that we do over a certain period of time, you will have come across this idea. |
| 1:07.6 | Now, it's not an idea that we strictly made up. We add some things to it, but it's an |
| 1:12.6 | idea that's been around to be able to kind of measure and think about the feeling of being |
| 1:21.0 | loved and connected. So we'll go more into kind of defining that, but here's the experience, right? |
| 1:30.7 | You love each other and that drives your commitment to one another but this can feel different to being loved and |
| 1:39.1 | or connected in a given day or even from one day to another. So more of like the practical moments of your life. |
| 1:46.9 | And we know that this is kind of where this phrase comes from. |
| 1:51.5 | When couples that we talk to say, |
| 1:54.2 | I know my partner loves me, |
| 1:56.8 | but whatever you fill in the butt or the blank with, I don't feel connected. |
| 2:03.3 | I feel like there's things kind of between us. |
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