What Healthy vs. Unhealthy Expectations Are In Your Relationship Episode 107
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
If you are in a relationship, you have been disappointed at some point. If you are a human being even, you have been disappointed at some point in your life. Any disappointment in a relationship comes from a certain expectation that you had of your partner to do something, act or be a certain way. So is it bad to have expectations in your relationship, is this just a path to an unhealthy relationship?
Well not necessarily… you will ALWAYS have expectations while you are alive as a human being and especially inside of your relationship. It's all in how you relate to and communicate about them that will have it be a healthy expectation or an unhealthy one.
In this episode we will cover how you take any expectation and make it a healthy part of your relationship that leads to growth and connection rather than one that leads to disappointment and disconnection.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.8 | advice for you to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team no matter |
| 0:11.3 | the challenge that you face. |
| 0:12.5 | I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freemans. |
| 0:17.5 | And today we are covering what healthy versus unhealthy expectations you have in your |
| 0:24.1 | relationship and this came from hundreds and hundreds of conversations coaching sessions and identifying |
| 0:30.9 | that expectations are in relationships and then yes I know there's expectations in relationships |
| 0:37.4 | no way I know so we're going to also |
| 0:40.0 | talk about that because some people think, oh, should I not have any expectations of my partner? |
| 0:44.4 | So we're going to go into that. But what we did was we posted on Instagram, shout out to all of you who are |
| 0:49.2 | connected to us there. And we asked, what expectations do you find that you have of your partner and then what |
| 0:56.0 | expectations do you see that your partner has a view and we got a bunch we could have had a lot |
| 1:01.0 | that we read to you but we're just going to read four of them the first one is i expect him to see |
| 1:05.8 | when i'm overwhelmed and he expects me to know where things are. |
| 1:16.3 | Second one, that we have to have a lot of sex to be a healthy couple. |
| 1:18.3 | That's a great expectation to identify. |
| 1:22.8 | Third, that my partner won't find other women attractive. |
| 1:25.8 | And then she put in parentheses, which I know is silly. |
| 1:29.3 | And then fourth, I expect him to put me at the top of his priority list with his work and family. |
| 1:33.3 | And he expects me to have other hobbies. |
| 1:36.3 | Again, we could read many more, |
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