What Women Want in Marriage, Especially Mothers: Episode 394
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Women's needs in marriage evolve—and if you're not paying attention to those changes, disconnection can creep in even when there's love. This is especially true in the seasons of motherhood, when emotional, physical, and mental demands are at their highest.
In this week's podcast episode, we break down the 5 key categories of needs most women have in marriage right now—especially mothers in the thick of parenting. Whether you're navigating newborn life, toddler chaos, or school-age schedules, this conversation helps both partners understand what matters most for staying connected.
Relationship Resources ⏬
1) If you're ready to reconnect in small but meaningful ways, join the Prioritizing Us 30-Day Couples Challenge. It's full of daily connection builders that fit into real life—especially in busy seasons like parenting.
2) To make sure that your partner has the best Mothers Day possible, we also have a FREE Mother's Day Prep Guide that you can access (and then use) for this weekend!
3) Also come see us in person at The Couples Workshop in Arizona on Oct.5th, 2025. This will be a half-day of learning and practicing communication and conflict resolution tools that will create real momentum in your marriage NOW!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, |
| 0:09.8 | fight smarter, and stay on the same team. |
| 0:11.6 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.8 | And this is what women want in a marriage, especially mothers. And the reason we're |
| 0:23.0 | doing this about mothers and women in general is because it's Mother's Day this coming weekend. |
| 0:28.4 | So we are going to be featuring some content, understanding women, understanding mothers. And don't |
| 0:33.8 | worry, we're not going to leave men out. We are definitely going to cover a Father's Day guide. |
| 0:38.3 | We're going to cover men coming up. |
| 0:40.1 | You don't have to worry about that. |
| 0:41.0 | We can keep it on the mothers here. |
| 0:43.0 | And with just a good frame, I'm going to open up with the context here, because then I'm going |
| 0:47.1 | to take a step back and let Jocelyn really go with this episode here. |
| 0:53.9 | But from a husband and or male perspective, |
| 0:57.6 | it's just been really important for me to understand that your needs, |
| 1:03.6 | and I'm obviously pointing at Jocelyn, but for all of you, women listening, |
| 1:08.7 | it's just become clear to me that women's needs do change throughout a marriage. |
| 1:15.3 | Now, men's do as well. There's a conversation in there about functional needs versus connection |
| 1:21.1 | needs. Kind of interesting to note. But really, it's just a key for all of us men to understand |
| 1:26.2 | this about our partners, that since those needs are going to change over time, it's just a key for all of us men to understand this about our partners, that |
| 1:28.2 | since those needs are going to change over time, and especially, maybe the biggest jump or |
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