EmPowered Couples with The Freemans Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman

Building connection (and closeness) with your partner is fundamental to having a happy and satisfying relationship. Yet it’s the first thing that takes a back seat when you are busy, stressed, or just in the routine of your life. 
Yes, maintaining connection takes effort. If you thought you could be in a marriage without effort, someone needs to inform your partner! But it doesn’t need to be extravagant or just be when you have time for date nights. In this episode you will hear 3 ways to build and maintain connection in your everyday life, so that your long-term life can be satisfying for both of you!
Relationship Resources
The next round of 30 Day Couples Challenges start May 1st. Now we have the level 1, prioritizing Us, and the level 2, Rebuilding Us challenges. You can see the details of both of them at our main weblink here: https://www.meetthefreemans.com/links 

The last 2 years could have torn us apart and made us turn against each other. It felt like life was throwing everything at us at once, all while we had a newborn baby.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Our personal journey of what trials we faced over the last 2 years
How exactly we triumphed after these challenges and got stronger than EVER
What social psychology says about overcoming stressors and adversity
4 areas of wisdom to guide you through anything you face as a couple
As you listen, make sure you also get signed up for one of our 30-Day Couples Challenges:
 
The Level 1 ‘Prioritizing Us’ Challenge focuses on filling your Love Accounts, improving your communication, and strengthens your connection.

The Level 2 ‘Rebuilding Us’ Challenge focuses on repairing and rebuilding the foundation of your partnership after being in a harder season of marriage.

Who's to blame for your frustrating problems and patterns in your relationship?
It's obviously your partner, right... they're the problem. No… blaming them doesn't get you anywhere, in fact it makes things worse and more difficult to get out of. 
If there's one thing that is inarguable in social psychology it's that relationships are bi-directional.Meaning, your attitude, actions, and choices affect your partner's attitude, actions, and choices, and vice versa.
Unfortunately many couples stay stuck in frustrating cycles or without a solution because they aren't in a problem-solving state. If you truly operate as a team and dive a little deeper into WHY you keep encountering this frustrating pattern, you can overcome it together.
 
In this episode you’ll hear a deep-dive into:
The 5 root causes of most marriage problems/issues
4 self-reflective questions to ask yourself to identify your partner in the situation 
Understanding more about a psychology approach to effective problem solving
 
Use this link to join the mentioned Rebuilding Us 30-Day Couples Challenge (level 2). 
Or for other resources, link on our general website link. 

There are disagreements in your relationship, and then there are Power Struggles! These power struggles are more detrimental and have deeper rooted contributing factors. They keep you from being the best team possible and being able to come up with mutually beneficial solutions for your family. In today’s episode we dive into:
How to define a power struggle
The goal of interdependence, rather than co-dependence or independence 
Contributing factors to being in a power struggle
Communication skills to be more collaborative + harmonious 
 
Dive into our Relationship Resources:
📔 Family Meeting guide
💻 Marriage WebClass
❣️ Our NEW 30-Day Couples Challenge: Rebuilding US
…and more!
ALL LINKED HERE
 

Your family is a source of support, love, and acceptance. Now there are certainly times that our perception of actions from family members make us forget those underlying intentions. Of course this can be even more true when you are interacting (or dealing with) your partner’s family members (your in-laws)! 
There is always the grand idea that two sides of a family can come together and just magnify the sense of community, family, and support, but that doesn’t always happen. It can be common that each of your own families (and how you individually interact with them) can be a source of conflict, even between you and your partner. In this episode we dive into some of these sources of conflict and 5 particular patterns that you should avoid as to not make your partner out to be the bad guy with your family!
 
Relationship Resources: 
It's April 1st, 2024 and we now have TWO 30-Day Couples Challenges that you can start! 
1) The Prioritize Us Couples Challenge - daily activities to grow your love accounts 
2) The Rebuilding Us Couples Challenge - daily prompts to repair and rebuild after a hard season. 

The basis of a strong marriage is how well you handle 3 “stages” of interactions. These 3 stages are before, during and after conflicts. The before stage is all about communication and being able to prevent conflicts from even happening. The during conflict stage is about de-escalating tensions and potential conflicts. The after stage is about how you repair when conflicts to happen (because they will)
In this episode you will hear the tools you will need to master each of the 3 stages and putting them all together will make you feel unstoppable and confident that you can handle any challenge as a team. 
 
This episode is our "audio version" of the webclass we just hosted. So be sure to watch the replay of the webclass while it’s still available. You can find it here on our Top Resources Page. 

There you can also find the BRAND NEW ‘Level 2’ 30-Day Couples Challenge that is all about repairing and rebuilding from a hard season. This is the advanced “Rebuilding Us Couples Challenge”!