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 on the same team no matter the challenge that you face.

I'm one of your hosts, Erin Freeman.

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know what says the Freeman's.

And today is about why some partners don't follow through and how that impacts the marriage.

Why we chose this topic. Well, just this last weekend, two days ago, we hosted our in-person

couples workshop in Arizona. Couples traveled in from all over the U.S. and even Canada.

Thank you guys for making the flight to be here with us. And,

you know, a lot of different themes show up. We walk couples through various exercises.

Everyone's doing it privately at their table. And we walk around to provide support, interact,

you know, answer questions. And one that comes up every single, I mean, definitely

workshop, but even sessions that we do with couples privately is, okay, Freeman's, what happens

if we talk about the thing, we make promises to each other, things we're going to do,

not do, promises, changes to behavior,

and then someone doesn't follow through.

And that was probably the most present as any workshop.

This time, as I was working with one couple, that was the exact question that she had. We were actually

walking through an exercise around communication, but there was a resistance there that I could feel

for her to clarify some of the things we were asking to get clarified because she said,

he's just not going to make the change anyway she said we've been here before i've made requests

and he says yes and then it doesn't happen and even as she started to say that she started to tear up

and i could really tell how much this has been impacting her for many years so maybe that's where

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