Unfair or Unrealistic Expectations to Have in a Marriage: Episode 279
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In a marriage is it right to have expectations or does that just set you up for failure? If the answer is no, is it even the right goal to not have any expectations at all? When it comes down to your practical day to day life with your partner, the fact is you will have expectations, this cannot be avoided. Expectations are also the root cause of all your upsets. So what to do?
In this episode you will hear about the expectations that are unfair and unrealistic to have because they will cause the biggest problems for you. If you can be open enough to communicate these with your partner you will be able to have a much smoother journey in marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:06.8 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:12.1 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:16.5 | but you all just know us as the Freemans. And this episode is about unfair or unrealistic expectations to have in a marriage. |
| 0:23.9 | And the key word being expectations. |
| 0:26.8 | Because look, ex-food. |
| 0:28.8 | Ooh, the mystery. |
| 0:30.0 | That word, everyone's afraid of. |
| 0:31.5 | But expectations are just a part of relationships, whether you like it or not. |
| 0:37.4 | Now, when you hear expectations, |
| 0:39.1 | do you think of the word commands? Because we're not talking about writing out a list of things |
| 0:45.8 | you must do in order to meet my standards. We're not talking about commanding or bossing your |
| 0:52.2 | partner around with expectations. But think about this. |
| 0:55.7 | You and your partner walk around because of your upbringing and your formative relationships |
| 1:02.2 | and the experiences that you had. |
| 1:04.8 | You each have a blueprint, an idea, a vision for how you think things should be in all areas of life. And if you think about it, |
| 1:14.2 | a simple way to think about expectations is you go to a five-star restaurant and then you're |
| 1:19.9 | disappointed because the waiter wasn't that nice. The meal was only mediocre. Why are you disappointed? |
| 1:27.2 | Because you expected it to be |
| 1:28.8 | five stars. But if you went to a food truck and you paid two bucks for the meal, but imagine it |
| 1:36.5 | was like, well, okay, you know, it was pretty good for two bucks. In comparison to what your |
| 1:41.5 | expectation was. Exactly. Now, in a relationship, it isn't that you will always meet each other's expectations or that |
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