Wives Are Facing this Inner-Challenge and it's Affecting Marriages: Episode 358
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Last week's episode focused on husbands was a huge hit, so this week we're focusing on what inner-challenge wives are struggling with and how it's affecting marriages. In this episode, we dive into the pressure many wives feel to constantly do more, grow more, and be more—often at the expense of their own well-being.
This relentless pursuit can lead to burnout, resentment, and a disconnect in marriages. We'll explore why it's crucial to recognize these patterns, how they impact your relationship, and what you can do to create a healthier, more balanced approach. Tune in to discover how you can start making small shifts that will lead to a stronger, more fulfilling marriage.
As you listen, make sure you sign-up for the upcoming 30-Day "Prioritizing Us" Couples Challenge so you can:
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Fill each other's Love Accounts
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Strengthen your connection & communication
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And consistently feel like your marriage (and your satisfaction) is a top priority
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.1 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and |
| 0:09.6 | stand the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:16.7 | And this episode is a follow-up from last week, so you're going to notice the similarity in title. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the inner challenge that wives are facing and its effect on marriage. |
| 0:28.1 | We got great feedback from last week, and we always love when there's messages. |
| 0:32.9 | So if you are especially impacted by something that we say, please send a message because we like |
| 0:39.3 | knowing we're talking to real people. And several messages come to mind, but one in particular |
| 0:44.7 | was just this husband. And he really shared that he'd never felt so in a sense like understood. |
| 0:52.1 | And it gave him language to even explain to his partner what he was going through. |
| 0:58.0 | And that's what we want. |
| 0:58.9 | We want these principles and these topics that we cover to give you even more self-awareness, |
| 1:05.5 | also give you an understanding of your partner and be able to talk about it in a meaningful |
| 1:09.5 | way. |
| 1:10.5 | That's really what we want to |
| 1:10.8 | bridge is the communication and the understanding between you two. So we're excited to really dive in |
| 1:16.5 | and focus on wives and I relate to this point and I was really thinking about really an undertone |
| 1:23.4 | of what I hear from wives in our sessions. Of course, it can sound a little bit different because |
| 1:28.9 | not all people are the exact same, but this is definitely a strong theme. I definitely can relate to it. |
| 1:35.0 | So even some of the shares I'll put throughout are things I've been noticing my inner dialogue |
| 1:39.9 | and what's going on. And we're going to make sure we not only cover what that inner challenge is, |
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