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When did the internet become safer than honest conversation with your spouse?

In this eye-opening episode of Marriage Mondays with The Kings, we unpack a growing trend that is quietly reshaping marriages. A 2025 survey reveals that 64% of married Americans search online for marriage help before speaking to their spouse, often out of fear of conflict, misunderstanding, or making things worse.

Couples are turning to AI, Google, forums, and social media for answers — while real conversations at home go untouched.

In this episode, we discuss:
• Why couples trust AI more than their partner
• The emotional fears behind silent searching
• The Top 10 most-searched marriage questions people ask online
• How avoiding hard conversations damages trust and intimacy
• What Scripture teaches us about communication
• Practical, faith-based tools to help couples reconnect and heal

Focal Scripture: James 1:19

If you feel disconnected, unheard, or unsure how to start the hard conversations in your marriage, this episode will challenge you, encourage you, and give you tools to begin doing the root work that leads to real healing.

This is a conversation every couple needs to hear.

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In Part III of this powerful series, we move from awareness to action. After uncovering the wounds (Part I) and identifying the patterns they create in marriage (Part II), this episode focuses on the practical tools individuals can begin using to heal the childhood pain that continues to shape their reactions, emotions, and communication today.

Many husbands and wives know something from their past is affecting their relationship, but they don’t always know what to do next. This episode is designed to guide you into the next step of your healing journey. We walk you through biblically grounded, emotionally safe, and practical strategies that help you begin repairing the inner child that still influences how you show up in your marriage.

You’ll learn:
• How to recognize your default emotional responses
• How to create safety within yourself and your relationship
• How to express what you feel without blaming your spouse
• How to interrupt destructive patterns
• How to rebuild trust with your own emotions
• How to begin reparenting the wounded parts of you
• How to communicate needs and fears with honesty and grace

Healing inner childhood wounds isn’t easy, but it is possible. This episode gives you the tools to begin doing the work—step by step, layer by layer—so you can show up in your marriage as a healthier, more grounded, more emotionally aware version of yourself.

If you’re ready to break cycles, change patterns, and create a new emotional foundation for your marriage, this episode will meet you right where you are.

Don’t just talk about healing—start doing the work.

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In this powerful continuation of last week’s conversation, we go deeper into the truth many couples avoid: unhealed childhood wounds don’t stay in childhood— they grow up with us, and they show up in our marriages as patterns, reactions, and emotional habits that quietly damage connection.

In Part II, we walk listeners through the real-life behaviors that come from unresolved pain: overreacting, shutting down, controlling tendencies, people-pleasing, hyper-independence, defensiveness, and emotional avoidance. These patterns aren’t random. They are learned survival responses from childhood that become destructive communication styles in adulthood.

Through vulnerable insight, biblical grounding, and practical tools, we explore how to recognize these patterns, interrupt them, and begin creating a safe emotional environment in your marriage. Healing doesn’t happen by accident— it happens by intentional reflection, accountability, and allowing God to deal with the roots, not just the symptoms.

If you’re ready to stop repeating cycles, stop reacting from old wounds, and build a marriage that reflects healing instead of survival mode, this episode is for you.
Your marriage can’t transform until you do.

Tune in, grow, and begin the work that leads to real restoration.

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Let’s be real… many marriages today are fighting battles that didn’t start in the marriage — they started in childhood. In this powerful first installment of our two-part series, we unpack how unhealed childhood wounds silently shape adult relationships and create marital triggers that leave couples feeling misunderstood, frustrated, and disconnected.

This episode takes you on a compassionate but honest journey through the root causes of relational pain. We define what marital triggers truly are, how they form, and why so many husbands and wives unintentionally react to their spouse through the lens of past hurt. Abandonment, rejection, emotional neglect, chaos, harsh discipline, and early responsibility — these childhood experiences don’t disappear. They follow us into marriage unless we intentionally heal them.

With biblical insight, real-life examples, and practical tools, we guide listeners to recognize their own patterns and begin the inner work required for lasting change. Because your spouse can support your healing, but they cannot heal what they did not break. This episode is about understanding yourself, breaking generational cycles, and creating a marriage built on awareness, safety, and emotional maturity.

If you're ready to stop repeating yesterday’s wounds and start building a healthier tomorrow with your spouse, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are — and invite you to grow.

Don’t just talk about healing… be about healing.

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Let’s be real—some of y’all are out here dating a whole salesperson and calling it “getting to know them.” This week on Marriage Mondays with The Kings, we’re talking straight to the singles and the married folks who wish they’d paid closer attention before saying “I do.”

This episode digs into the polished, perfectly-packaged version of a person that shows up during dating—the one who talks a good game, sells a good dream, but disappears once the relationship gets real. The Kings break down how this “salesperson persona” can lead to disappointment, disconnection, and even the downfall of a marriage.

We’re answering two hard-hitting questions:

1. Why do people show up as the salesperson when they’re dating?
2. Would more marriages survive if folks led with honesty instead of a highlight reel?

If you’re tired of surface-level dating or you’re married and finally ready to admit you bought a product that wasn’t advertised correctly—this episode is for you.

Tune in, reflect, and share it with someone who needs the truth before they make the same mistake.

Stop buying the pitch. Start paying attention to the person.

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Some wives haven’t gone quiet because they don’t care — they’ve gone quiet because they’re tired of talking and not being heard.

In this continuation of Marriage Mondays with The Kings, Kenya and ShanTrail King dig even deeper into the heart of what wives are truly longing for in marriage in 2025. Part II moves from awareness to action — helping husbands learn how to show up, speak love, and stay consistent when their wives need it most.

This episode challenges men to examine how they respond to emotional needs, communicate under pressure, and protect their wife’s peace — not with control, but with compassion. The Kings combine biblical truth, counseling insight, and real-life wisdom to help couples do the root work that leads to real healing.

💜 In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Why some wives emotionally withdraw — and how to rebuild trust
• How husbands can respond with empathy instead of defensiveness
• The power of consistency, prayer, and emotional presence
• Root-work steps for husbands who want to love from a healed place
• Tools to strengthen communication and connection this week

📖 Focal Scripture: Ephesians 5:25 (NIV)

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Let’s be real — a lot of wives aren’t silent because they’re fine… they’re silent because they’re tired of saying the same thing and still feeling unheard.

In this raw and honest episode of Marriage Mondays with The Kings, Kenya and ShanTrail King unpack what wives in 2025 are truly longing for in marriage — not more stuff, but more emotional connection, healing, safety, and presence.

This conversation dives into the top 15 needs wives are expressing across counseling rooms, social media, and faith circles: husbands who are emotionally intelligent, healed from past trauma, and spiritually grounded enough to love with intention.

Whether you’re newly married, decades in, or trying to rebuild after distance, this episode offers practical insight and heart work that will help you understand your wife on a deeper level.

💜 In This Episode:

• What wives are really saying they need (even when they’ve stopped saying it)
• How a husband’s healing impacts the peace in his home
• Emotional intelligence: the missing piece in most marriages
• Tools to help husbands reconnect, communicate, and protect their wife’s peace
• Faith-based guidance for creating emotional and spiritual safety in marriage

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📖 Focal Scripture: 1 Peter 3:7 — “Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives and treat them with respect…”

If you’re ready to stop guessing what your wife wants and start understanding what she needs, this episode is your starting point.
Tune in, take notes, and start doing the root work that leads to real connection, real peace, and real love.

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Many couples say they want a stronger marriage — but few are willing to do the real work to get there.

In this follow-up episode, The Kings dive even deeper into what husbands are voicing in 2025—their need for respect, appreciation, peace, and emotional safety—while also reminding wives that this conversation is about partnership, not perfection.

This is for the grown folks who want to elevate in their marriage… for those who are done blaming and ready to take personal responsibility, make lasting changes, and build something unshakable. Whether your marriage is in a good place or you simply know it could be better, this episode will challenge, inspire, and equip you to love more intentionally.

Listen in to hear The Kings bring honesty, humor, and hope to the heart of marriage—helping couples everywhere move from surviving… to truly thriving together.

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