What Women Are Taught Vs What Marriage Needs Them to Learn: Episode 443
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Many women enter marriage with expectations and habits shaped long before the relationship ever began. Some were modeled growing up, others reinforced by culture, and many rooted in a genuine desire to love well and create a strong home. But what once felt natural doesn't always translate into what creates true connection and partnership in a marriage. This is where frustration can build and where many start to feel like they're putting in effort but not getting the closeness they hoped for.
In this episode, we unpack the gap between what women are taught about love and relationships and what marriage truly needs to feel connected and fulfilling. This is the follow-up to last week's episode where we covered what men are taught versus what marriage needs them to learn, and together these conversations will help you see the patterns that play out between you. If you've ever felt like you're carrying a lot or not getting the response you hoped for, this will give you a new level of clarity and direction for how to move forward together.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | We're 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. |
| 0:11.1 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.0 | And this episode is continuing from last week. |
| 0:19.6 | But today we're talking about what women are taught |
| 0:22.3 | versus what marriage needs them to learn, different than last week we talked about what men |
| 0:27.5 | needed to learn. So definitely go back and listen to that episode if you haven't. And it's perfect |
| 0:31.7 | because I actually got to spend four whole days last week with just women at a women's retreat. I went to this business |
| 0:39.2 | mastermind. It was awesome. And it was a great opportunity because, yes, we were talking business, |
| 0:43.5 | but marriage always comes up, parenting comes up. And so I got to just have, you know, |
| 0:49.6 | back-to-back conversations with women about all things life and just got to jot down a lot of these |
| 0:55.8 | ideas of what messaging women get as girls growing up. Just like we were talking about the |
| 1:03.4 | messaging that boys get as they're growing up and then how that influences them in adult |
| 1:09.2 | relationships and in marriage. |
| 1:15.5 | And remember that when we talked about that for men and same goes for women, |
| 1:18.1 | when we're describing what was taught, |
| 1:20.6 | we're not even saying that it's all bad, right? We're not saying that each one of those things is a bad thing to be taught |
| 1:23.8 | and that it shouldn't be because there's a lot of benefits and pluses to aspects of it. |
| 1:30.1 | It's really about when it's taken too far, right? Or when it isn't balanced with other perspective. |
| 1:38.8 | So a good way to think about this is even with the trait of being someone who wants to please others. Is that a good thing? |
| 1:46.8 | Yes, of course. It's good to want to please others, but can that go too far? And now you're |
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