Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship

advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team

no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your host, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman,

but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is top three sources of marriage

dissatisfaction for women and how to prevent them.

Now, before you think we're biased and that we're going to quote unquote say that men are guilty of

these three things and women are perfect, don't worry, the next episode is going to be covering

the top three sources of marriage dissatisfaction for men. So stay tuned in for that one.

And as we go into these three areas, it's important to note that we're not saying men are the only

ones that maybe are quote unquote guilty of these. It goes both ways, right? So we're just

covering the top three that we hear most commonly,

whether that be from our sessions, from questionnaires, from online, like all of the sources of

the information that we get. And so it does go both ways. The three that we're going to focus on,

both partners should be focusing on these. These just happen to be very prevalent from what we hear from

women talking about the areas of dissatisfaction in their partnership. Now, I think it's important

to say, this is what I believe, that when we get married to someone, when we're choosing to do

life with someone, we're saying, I'm going to care about your needs.

I'm going to care about whether you're satisfied or not.

I'm going to do my best to meet the standard that we have set for a partnership.

So again, that's just what I believe.

It's not, hey, let's do life together and, you know,

just accept what you get from me, you know, like, you know, could be bare minimum, could be pretty

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