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Monarch for Love is where heart meets humor, healing, and a whole lot of honesty. I’m Michelle Hays, a Heart-Centered Marriage Coach, Columnist, Author, Speaker, and lover of big feelings and even bigger breakthroughs.
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Ep. 229 - The Truth About Compatibility in Marriage (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Michelle challenges the belief that strong relationships are built on sameness. You’ll learn why differences in communication, emotions, and personality do not automatically mean you chose the wrong person—and why understanding matters more than thinking alike. Compatibility may make love feel easier at first. But curiosity, emotional regulation, repair, and respect are what help love last when life gets hard.🔗 Website: www.monarchforlove.com 📘 Book: www.awakenedheartsboo
Ep. 228 - Stop Chasing Your Husband (opens the original)
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In this week's episode of the Monarch for Love Podcast, Michelle explains the difference between reaching for connection and creating pressure. You’ll learn how anxiety can turn a healthy need into a demand, why the pursue-withdraw cycle keeps couples stuck, and how to express what you need without pushing your partner further away. The answer isn’t to stop caring. It’s to reach for connection in a way that invites your husband closer.🔗 Website: www.monarchforlove.com 📘 Book: www.awakenedheartsb
Ep. 227 - Why Love Isn’t Enough to Save a Marriage (opens the original)
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Can two people deeply love each other and still struggle to stay connected? Absolutely. In this week's episode, Michelle challenges one of the most common beliefs about relationships: that love should be enough. Love may bring two people together, but love alone does not teach us how to regulate our emotions, communicate when we are hurt, repair after conflict, challenge our assumptions, or create emotional safety. Michelle shares what she learned from the end of her first marriage, the struggle
Ep. 226 - Silent Treatment vs. Stonewalling: What’s Really Happening? (opens the original)
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Is your spouse using silence to punish you—or are they emotionally overwhelmed and shutting down? In this episode of the Monarch for Love Podcast, Michelle explains the important difference between the silent treatment and stonewalling—and why confusing the two can create even more hurt and distance in a relationship. You’ll learn how silence can become a weapon, why some partners withdraw when their nervous system becomes overwhelmed, and how the stories we tell ourselves during those quiet mom
Ep. 225 - Why You Feel Unloved in Your Marriage (opens the original)
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Why can you be deeply loved by your spouse and still feel completely unloved? In this episode of the Monarch for Love Podcast, Michelle explores how quickly assumptions can shape the way we see our spouse. A missed text, a distracted response, or a lack of affection can easily become, “They don’t care,” “I’m not important,” or “Nothing will ever change.” But assumptions are not facts. You’ll learn how negative stories create defensiveness, distance, and confirmation bias—and how one simple shift
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