Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. 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 no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman.

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

This episode is about why marriages become bland and how to keep it feeling fresh.

And the word bland is very intentional, right?

Think about food.

Okay, so it's not spoiled.

It's not rotten.

It's edible.

You know, it can sustain you.

It's just kind of, meh, you know?

Like, and we've all had those seasons.

And frankly, we're doing this episode because we need a little freshness in our relationship. We need a little tune up to add a little

excitement because we have those seasons where it does become a little bit more routine and

we're missing a little zest in the partnership. Well, when you think about from the beginning

of a relationship, like when you're dating,

when you're probably engaged, even the first year of marriage, let's say, probably for most,

the first half of the first year, even of marriage.

But you do find yourself in a place where it's like you want to text them like all the

time and you just want to be around them.

You're excited to see them just being in their presence, right?

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