What Really Makes a Good Partner & a Great Marriage: Episode 373
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Marriage is both challenging and rewarding. One of the reasons for this is that it takes evolving into a better and better partner as the years pass. If both people accept this evolution then it leads to a great marriage, even through the inevitable challenges that a couple will face.
With all the marriage content out there it can seem overwhelming, complex, or even uncertain about how one can become a better version of themselves in terms of the relationship. In this episode you will be given the acronym COMMITTED to outline the 9 things that an individual needs to do over the course of a marriage to become their best version and play their role in experiencing a truly great marriage together.
From the episode mention, join the brand new January ONLY "Best of Us" Couples Challenge starting January 1st, 2025 - this new 30 day challenge is for couples to get out of the function and routine of a busy life and spark more closeness, excitement, & intimacy for the new year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.2 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:10.2 | no matter the challenge that you face. I'm one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:14.5 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about what really makes a good partner |
| 0:19.7 | and a great marriage. Now here's a trap you could |
| 0:22.9 | fall into. You could listen to this episode and all of the points we're going to go through and think, |
| 0:28.8 | is my partner like this? Really be thinking about them. And we know that there's going to be a |
| 0:34.1 | little bit of that. But we challenge you as we dive into each of these |
| 0:38.6 | characteristics that you are looking in the mirror. And we would hope that you're both listening |
| 0:44.9 | to this episode. So if you've started and you haven't introduced this to your partner, send them |
| 0:49.1 | the link right now to be listening. Because our hope would be that you both listen, you both take a look in the |
| 0:55.3 | mirror, and you discuss these points about how you can be even better. Because the purpose of |
| 1:01.5 | this episode isn't to look for the flaws or to try and make each other be like, see, you're |
| 1:07.3 | not doing this or that. The Freemans are saying it and you need to be more of this. |
| 1:10.9 | It's not about that. It's about shining a light on the areas where you can clean up your |
| 1:17.1 | side of the street, to say it simply, where you can in, you know, as we head into this new year, |
| 1:22.7 | because I think a lot of people see this time as a fresh start, they get re remotivated. It's a place where you can say, |
| 1:29.5 | all right, I'm going to work on these different areas. I'm going to step it up in the relationship. |
| 1:34.1 | Because really, when I think about, and we're going to get into very specific things here, |
| 1:39.1 | but a great marriage overall is made up of two people who aim to be the best version of themselves. Doesn't mean the |
| 1:48.0 | perfect version. We're all going to be human, but we both are pulling our weight. And we were just |
| 1:54.8 | interviewed on someone else's podcast. It'll be coming out soon. And a lot of the themes of the |
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