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 am one of your host, Aaron Freeman.

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's.

And this episode is about what makes positive changes last or not.

Are you interested, listener, in change lasting in your relationship positive change?

You know, get ready for a wonderful episode.

And why that is is because, first of all, the number one thing for relationships is that conflict actually goes emotionally repaired and resolved.

That's the number one thing.

You've heard to say that.

But in no particular order, this what we're going to cover today is one of the probably

top five, maybe top three things that a relationship has to have.

Yes.

Because all of the couples that we talk to, and as you're listening, this is one of the biggest

pain points, is that when you get into a particular area, you have a desire and expectation

for something in your relationship.

And you do not see positive, progressive change. It deflates you. And it's one of the biggest

barriers to couples actually making progress is we've had this conversation before. This is the area we've

tried to focus on. And when you do not see that positive change, it is a huge barrier to the

connection for a couple and your belief that anything will change. I know that seems obvious,

but it's a huge barrier when you think

we've been down this road and I don't think something is actually going to change here.

Well, and I also want to add to that's one way of it like not experiencing that big change.

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