Take Your Marriage From Good to Great in 12 Weeks!

By Fawn Weaver on Monday, April 28, 2014

Take Your Marriage From Good to Great

If you could take your marriage from good to great or from great to extraordinary in 12 weeks or less, would you invest the time?

Well, that’s what we’ll be doing beginning this Wednesday night.

Every week, I will post the most important marriage tips I’ve discovered since starting the Happy Wives Club with a series entitled, 12 Weeks to a Happier Marriage.  

For the past ten years, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing (and spending thousands of hours with), some of the happiest couples in the world.  

The kind of couples who, after 25 years of marriage, still gaze into each other’s eyes, are visibly best friends, and are fond of saying, “please” and “thank you” to one another on a regular basis.

Just being in their presence made me want to pull out a pen and pad and write down everything they have to say.  Each word, like a rare jewel of immeasurable value, was worth me recording.

Earlier this year, when I released the story of my journey in the book, Happy Wives Club, I knew it would transform marriages in every country it reached.  

I was confident of this because I wasn’t giving my own advice on marriage but rather sharing that of those who have been successfully and happily married for decades longer than me.

Although I’d discovered so much, I didn’t want to write a “how to” manual.  This was important to me because I’m not a marriage expert; I’m an intentional learner.  

Each lesson I’ve learned along this journey, as well as so much more I’ve discovered in my own marriage and from other happily married couples over the years, has convinced me that every marriage can benefit from learning from other successful ones that have been at it much longer.

It is with this in mind that I’m excited to bring you this upcoming series.  Why 12 weeks instead of 12 days?  I realize more would likely join me for this series if it were for 12 days.  But it’s hard to sustain lasting change when you’ve only had one day to learn how to apply a new principle in your marriage before moving on to the next one.  That’s why I’ve broken it up into one principle per week.

Every Wednesday night, I will publish the marriage principle for that week and it will remain on the home page until Friday.  So “favorite” this post in your browser or save it to your Pinterest or Facebook walls to remind you to return every Wednesday night (or Thursday) for the next 12 weeks.

For our first post in the series, I’ll be sharing the one principle I’d never even heard about until I discovered EVERY happily married couple I’d interviewed had been doing it for decades.  I called Keith from the other side of the world and said, “We have to do this.  Let’s think of a great way to incorporate this into our own lives.”  Now, that we’ve continued it for the past two years, I don’t know how we ever lived without doing it.  You don’t want to miss this!

If you want to get a head start on some of what I’ll be sharing, or learn the behind the scenes stories of couples who taught these lessons, make sure to order a copy of Happy Wives Club.  But whether or not you have the book, I assure you, the next 12 weeks will transform your marriage if you commit to meet me here each week.

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

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Fawn Weaver is the USA Today® and New York Times® bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 900,000 women in over 110 countries around the world. When she’s not blogging or working on her next project, she's happily doting over her husband of nearly eleven years, Keith.

 

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  • http://www.aterriblehusband.com/about/ ATerribleHusband

    Can’t wait! And I could use the weekly versus daily lessons… I’m in the remedial program, unfortunately…

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      This just made me laugh out loud! Yes, I think you’ll love this series.

  • Samantha Cisneros

    I can’t wait told my husband and he said he’s up for any challenge!!!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Outstanding!! Looking forward to you both joining this challenge and I hope it will be a wonderful blessing in your marriage.

  • http://www.modernmarried.com/ Maggie Reyes

    I love this Fawn! I read the book and still can’t wait to see all the lessons as you share them here!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Thanks, Maggie!! I bet you know the first one I mentioned above :) .

  • Ami

    Thank You! (With tears)

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Thank YOU! (with a big ole’ smile)

  • http://www.toodarnhappy.com/ Kim Hall

    Looking forward to this, Fawn. These principles will bless so many couples!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Thanks, Kim! You’re going to see some toodarnhappy.com stuff, I’m sure :) .

  • http://www.osasandgodwin.com osas R.

    excited already……cant wait.

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Woohoo!

  • http://www.osasandgodwin.com osas R.

    I want to use this opportunity to say thanks again for this club, i joined less than 2 months ago. i have read all the posts and comments, it been a wonderful journey. When i saw the certificate of appreciation/Husband day celebration. i shouted Hallelujah and i knew i wanted to give it my husband, cos if anybody deserve to be appreciated, it has to be my husband.On that particular day i was to get it to him,we had a little bit of misunderstanding on our way home from work.all the way i was thinking will i be able to give him the certificate, cos i felt really angry at him…. but i knew without a doubt that i was going to get him the certificate, in most of your post which says that happiness is a choice, it is not a feeling.i knew how i felt at that moment should not stop me from telling him how wonderfully awesome he is.
    We got home from work, went straight to the kitchen, made him his favorite meal.brought out the certificate,didn’t want him to see it,when i got to where he was,he had slept off,i saw down staring at him and thinking to myself how blessed i am to have him as my husband. so he woke up and look deep into my eye and he said baby how you ok? and…..i stop him from going further,cos i knew he was going to apology,so i said “baby i’m sorry and i have something for you”read the out the list of why i love my husband to him( which i sent to him 2 weeks prior through email, where he was at the office). i just felt it was important i read out the list while looking deep into his eye cos something writing is just not enough.i told how much i love and appreciate him.
    Gave him the certificate and Fawn, the look in my husband face was priceless. i knew then and then that he will never forget that moment.

    Thanks Fawn

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Yeah!! Love it, Osas. So happy to have you as a part of this club.

  • Andrea W

    Happy Tuesday!!!! How does one or can one *search* for the husband certificate here on the website? I remember it seeing it, but I don’t remember the day of that particular blog. Thanks!

  • ROse

    Can u help me I have a worst marriage ever.
    My husband is one of typical man that never tried to cpurt his lady, since day one of marriage.
    I think his personality is my problems.
    Me I’m always gathering new tips and way how my marriage will last ,
    Bu the thing is I’m the only working out for this marriage.
    Even when we fight he just ignore me
    Ima tyoe ofof person that very silent
    ,…but now imvcrying out loud becoz our marriage is not working anymore he dont even care.
    But I love him very much nd kids love him too.I’m having second thoughts to get sseparate to him but when i ee my kids happy with him ,I couldn’t ,do it
    But I’m suffering ,we didn’t day iI love yyou anymore for this past few mnths

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Hi Rose, I’m not sure if this will help you. It seems as though what is needed most for you and your husband are marriage mentors and/or marriage therapy. When there are challenges that have continued for this long, meeting with someone who can hear both sides and help to bridge the divide is what will be the most helpful. But hopefully you will be able to get something from this series to add to that.

  • Ann

    Can’t find week one of the challenge. Have you posted it yet? Maybe I am just overlooking it.