About the book:

“Where does ‘highly happy’ come from—and can we have some too?! 

Have you ever looked at a blissfully married couple and thought, I wish I could know their secret? Now you can. After years of investigative research, Shaunti reveals twelve powerful habits that the happiest marriages have in common.

Best news of all? Anyone can learn the secrets of a highly happy marriage!

In The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages, Shaunti Feldhahn shares her findings about little, very unexpected, often overlooked actions that make a huge difference. You’re about to discover that highly happy couples:
• Go to bed mad
• Keep score (just not in the way you think)
• Boss their feelings around
• Have factual fantasies
• Get in over their heads
• Don’t tell it like it is
• Don’t look to marriage to make them happy…

Packed with eye-opening research and practical helps, this book delivers relationship insights that will take your marriage from “just fine” to “just the marriage we’ve always wanted.”

Are you a person who loves advice based on facts? Then this book is for you! This book is based on actual research–not some relationship therapist telling me their views on how to have a better marriage. The book focuses on small changes anyone can make to improve their marriage. The book is really a practical application of years of research the author and her husband conducted on couples who were struggling in their marriages, mostly happy and highly happy. The author reveals 12 secrets she discovered in researching highly happy marriages and explains how spouses can implement them to take their marriage from good to great.

WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group provided this book to me for free in exchange for this honest review as part of their Blogging for Books program.

When your life falls apart—through a death, a lost relationship, a diagnosis—you want more than anything to know that your pain has a purpose. And that beyond your pain, a new day awaits. 

Tricia Lott Williford discovered this in a few tragic hours when her thirty-five-year-old husband died unexpectedly. In And Life Comes Back, she writes with soaring prose about her tender, brave journey as a widow with two young boys in the agonizing days and months that followed his death. 

And Life Comes Back documents the tenacity of love, the exquisite transience of each moment, and the laughter that comes even in loss. This traveler’s guide to finding new life after setbacks offers no easy answers or glib spiritual maxims but instead draws you into your own story and the hope that waits for you even now.  

Wow. Wow. Wow.

I got this book two days ago…TWO days ago. The night I started reading it, I seriously could NOT put it down. This was one of those books that I could walk around with my nose in all day.

Tricia holds nothing back in this book. Her grief is raw and tangible, you feel as if you are there experiencing it with her. Many times the tears were running down my face. Her strength is so evident in her words. Every page shines with the evidence of her rock solid faith.

At one point she mentioned a few things that made me stop.  They were things not normally mentioned in Christian books.  But rather than turning me away it drew me in more, helped me to feel connected to her.  It showed her realness, I loved that!

Even if you have never personally experienced this kind of loss I would highly recommend this book to any married, divorced, widowed, or soon to be married woman. If you have your husband it will remind you that no one is guaranteed a tomorrow, and if you’ve lost yours in any way by death or otherwise you will find comfort and security in knowing that you are not alone.

And Life Comes Back is an inspiring book full of raw emotion, truth, and hope. I praise God that he gave Tricia the courage to share openly about things many of us would rather keep hidden.

WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group provided this book to me for free in exchange for this honest review as part of their Blogging for Books program.

One woman undertakes a worldwide search to learn the secrets of a great marriage—and finds one foundational truth that could change everything. 

Fawn Weaver was a happily married woman running a successful business—and then something happened. Maybe it was divorce rate reports on the evening news, The Real Housewives of Orange County, or any daytime talk show where husbands and wives dramatically reveal their betrayals. Everywhere she looked, Fawn saw negative portrayals of marriage dominating the airwaves and dooming everyone to failure. 

Looking at Keith, the love of her life, she knew that wasn’t true. She was determined to find and connect with women just like her—happy and optimistic about marriage, deeply in love with her spouse, and committed to building a strong marriage that stands the test of time. 

On a whim, she started the blog HappyWivesClub.com and sent the link to a few of new friends. What started as a casual invitation to five women exploded into an international online club with 150,000 members in more than 100 countries. 

Happy Wives Club is Fawn’s journey across the world to meet her friends and discover what makes their marriages great. Join her on this exciting, exotic trip across six continents and through more than eighteen cities. Walk the streets of Mauritius, the historic ruins in Italy, and the vistas of New Zealand and Australia. Go from Cape Town to London, Manila to Buenos Aires, Winnipeg to Zagreb. 

Along the way, you will meet everyday women whose marriage secrets span cultures. You will hear their stories, witness their love, and be inspired by the proof that happy, healthy marriages do exist—and yours can be one of them! 

It turns out great marriages are all around us—when we look for them. Go on a trip with Fawn and learn the best marriage secrets the world has to offer.

In a time when the world basically hates marriage, this book was a breath of fresh air! Actually, this book was awesome! It was interesting to read through each individual woman’s story and see her marriage through her words. I found myself nodding in agreement as she brought me into the lives of many different couples.

This was a well written book each chapter, every country that she visited, and every wife she interviewed I clearly was able to take something away about marriage.  Isn’t it amazing that, all around the world, women have the same outlook on marriage!

I realized how blessed I am and how happy I am in my role as wife to my best friend. I would recommend this to anyone, especially those who are tired of “self-help” or “improvement” books. This is fantastic and truly inspiring!

Want to check it out for yourself? The book is now available in stores and on Christian Book Store. What a perfect bridal shower or wedding gift for a friend or family member!

This book was provided to me free of charge by booksneeze.com in return for my honest review. The opinions i have expressed are my own.