Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

If you want a successful marriage, vulnerability is a MUST

7 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue (creator: Jacqueline Elliott) arguing that full emotional vulnerability is essential for a successful marriage. The speaker shares a personal timeline: married 15 years and only became fully vulnerable around 4–5 years into the marriage. She describes vulnerability as necessary to feel protected by a partner and to experience a newfound freedom.

Questions this video answers

15 years.

About four to five years into the marriage.

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We've been married for 15 years. Not until probably four or five years was I able to really, really be myself and be completely vulnerable in everything. And I knew that I wasn't being judged. Some of you guys I know because it happened to me. I felt like I was being judged. I've always been like, oh, I don't give a shit what anybody thinks. Yes, on the outside, but when it comes to talking about emotions and talking about, like, you know, my upbringing and talk about, like, all the things that hurt me as a child, I was. I carried that with me, and I didn't really know how to identify it. But if you can't share those kind of hard conversations and trust the person that's next to you that really is going to be there to protect you, the way he's talking about, you have to feel a state of vulnerability, 100% vulnerability with the person that you're with, because that's why you're here. Because you're going to open up and it's going to have. It's going to create this type of freedom that you never knew that you had.