Strengthen Your Marriage with These {Book Review}
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Strengthen Your Marriage with These New Releases
Are you looking for marriage tips, practical ways to strengthen your bond with that wonderful spouse of yours? Do you like short and sweet yet effective? Consider two new books on the market.
Super easy to read, both overflow with helpful, realistic ideas to strengthen your marriage.
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New Marriage Book for Wives
Say hello to 100 Ways to Love Your Husband by Lisa Jacobson. Call it solid equipment for our wifely toolboxes, friend.
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100 Ways to Love Your Husband: The Simple, Powerful Path to a Loving Marriage By Lisa Jacobson |
Many marriage books crowd the market, several good ones, too. But I hope folks make room for this one.
Here’s why:
- Practical Ideas
Lisa pulls from her decades of marriage to Matt and the practical ideas that have worked for them. Some action steps seem rather small and inconsequential, but results assure something much more impacting. (My own 25+ of wedded bliss attests to this.)
- Easy to Read
For the busy woman, speed and ease warm her like the bright rays of summer sunshine. With large-font action steps listed on each page, readers easily skim to find which idea sticks best…then read the small paragraph below it for further encouragement or insight. - Story
Lisa includes a few stories of her own throughout this book. It creates credibility and allows readers to relate to her and her struggles as well as her successes.
(Not to mention we women need a little conversation, right?) - Gratitude
In “Way” #87, Lisa mentions showing gratitude for his gifts. Girl, I’ve hiccuped on this one in the past. She’s right. Be thankful for those gifts the hubster offers.
New Book Release for Husbands
We can’t review one book without the other. So shall we dive into the husband’s version?
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100 Ways to Love Your Wife: The Simple, Powerful Path to a Loving Marriage By Matt Jacobson |
Say hello to 100 Ways to Love Your Wife by Matt Jacobson–the companion to 100 Ways to Love Your Husband. Sold separately, they would make a wonderful, helpful wedding or anniversary gift when combined. Their formats mimic each other, and although the “ways” listed are similar in idea, Matt presents them from a male’s view. Several action steps remain specific to the husband’s book only.
Here’s why I love this book:
- Faithful
In “Way” #69 Matt mentions assuring her you’ll be faithful forever. That simple yet powerful conversation boosts a wife’s confidence sky-high. (Experience speaking here. Tony and I conversed about this when we were first married. When rocky times came, and they did, knowing we were both in it for the long haul brought solace and hope to those volatile situations.) - Story
Matt offers fewer personal anecdotes than Lisa, evidencing the difference between men and women. 🙂 The two or three he includes are effective. As a woman, I would have liked to have seen more. I suspect my husband would disagree. - Podcast
Look for a bonus in the back pages of each book. Lisa and Matt host a marriage podcast. I’ve just started listening to it. So far, so good. I’d recommend it. If you already listen, I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
Would I recommend purchasing 100 Ways to Love Your Husband and 100 Ways to Love Your Wife? Absolutely. Keep in mind the practicalness, simplicity, effectiveness, and the overflowing ideas contained within each to help strengthen marriages–yours, mine, and even the people we pass these books along to.
How Can I Purchase?
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Or, find them wherever books are sold.
(The publisher supplied a free copy of these books that help strengthen your marriage in exchange for an honest review. )
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I rarely read marriage books. I have no idea why not, but I have followed Lisa Jacobs for years and find her to be an inspiration. Maybe her new marriage book for wives would be a good idea!
How fun that you’ve followed Lisa all these years, Heather. Sounds like this one might be a good “strengthen your marriage” book for your bookbag. 😉
I think every marriage could be stronger. These Christian marriage books look so practical and useful! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on them. Off to Amazon ????????????
Amen, Aryn, every marriage can be stronger. Two more tools to help. 🙂
Thanks for sharing about these new books. They look like great resources for strengthening your marriage. I love that you mentioned they include practical ideas. I’m always frustrated when resources are touted as wonderful and then you get them and they are just so impractical or completely ridiculous.
Me too, Heather. These marriage books are very practical.
I haven’t considered marriage books. We’ve been married almost 30 years, but there’s always room for improvement, right? Great review. They look interesting.
Congratulations on 30 years of wedded bliss, Wendy. That’s great! I can see these marriage books helping newlyweds and long-timers like you and your husband, too. They really were goodies.
These look like amazing books to strengthen your marriage. I haven’t actually read them. Adding them to my list!
These marriage books really are good ones. It’s basically a list of 100 ideas to implement in marriage. If you read and use them, I’d love to hear your feedback, Tiffany.
My husband doesn’t care for reading, so Ioved the way you focused on “easy to read” as one of your points. Maybe he will like reading this one. I definitely want to check these out for strengthening our marriage. I like to see reading books like this as professional development for one of the most important decisions we’ll ever make!
Thanks for sharing these resources, Kristi! You are right, I think. Little things can have a big impact in a marriage.
These both sound like great books! I’ve been married 31 years, but we’re in a new stage of “almost retired” and it changes things! I know an older couple who bicker constantly, and I do not want to turn into that. Marriage takes work to make it work the best. Thanks for sharing these 2 resources.
Thank you so much for sharing this. So many good points made! Keep up the amazing work!