A NEW DAY

It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day, it’s a new life. And I’m feeling gooooooooood. Cue the horns: da da da da da da. No, this isn’t a Weight Watchers commercial with Jennifer Hudson. What many of you don’t know is I love to sing. And I mean really sing. Loud with a little Elvis hip movement is my favorite way to belt out a hit. Unfortunately, I can’t sing! Keith always jokes, “Sweetie, your voice is so precious you should put it in a box and place it delicately on a shelf. And when the time is right, you should take the box down and share your voice with the world. I’ll let you know when the time is right.” And you guessed it, in 8 years the time has never been right.

So I’m singing this song in my head (with a little hip action) as to not wake the neighbors or send my lovely husband to work with a bad taste in his mouth. But this song made me think about this Club so I’m feeling goooooooood da da da da da da…

It’s a new day. What does that mean? It means Happy Wives Club is getting an overhaul. I will be the first to admit I’ve been lazy over the past year as it relates to this Club. Like a billion other things I’ve started with gusto only to allow fizzle out, this Club was headed in that direction. Not because I didn’t value the members or didn’t see its important but because it takes more time to blog than many think.

What was I thinking starting a blog and I was the only one writing? Other sites I love like TheDatingDivas.com (great job, Tara and gang) or FitMomsFitKidsClub.com (love it, Annett) were smart enough to enlist people to help write the daily blogs. But not me. I just started writing…and writing…and writing until I got bored with my own words. But this site is about so much more than my words.

This club is about the collective voice of its members rejecting traditional thoughts on love and marriage. It’s a desire of the thousands of members of this club around the world to be a part of something (I don’t like to use the word movement so insert any word you like) that builds up marriage in our own hearts, as well as in the eyes of our children (who could soon live in a world where marriage is no longer valued and is wholly undermined by divorce rates and tales of being unhappily married ever after).

When I began the club, I was just searching for happy wives to give a voice to women like me who adore their husbands and love being married. Now, it’s evolving. It’s no longer just about finding happy wives but about also helping create them. A marriage doesn’t have to start out “happy” to end that way.

Most of us are not taught how to live with another person or how to merge our life with that of another. So where do we learn it? How can a marriage be turned from dull and mundane to loving, exciting and lasting? Hmmm…where do we start? I’ve got an idea. We have brilliant members out there with so many thoughts on this and I’m going to ask them to share.

So this is what a new day means, I’m dusting off this site and relaunching it as less of a novelty (something the press likes) and making it more meaningful. As many days as possible, I will come to this site and check in with you. Give you a thought for that day or introduce a guest blogger with the same desire as me, to see lives improved for married couples all over the world and to increase the number of smiles seen on the faces of women who have pledged, ‘til death do us part.’

So, here we go! The first time we launched the site there was fanfare and media associated. This time, we’ll do this quietly. It’s just you, me and maybe 10,000 or so like us. Let’s change the way the world thinks about marriage…one happy wife at a time!

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

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 1 million women in over 110 countries around the world. She’s an investor in real estate, tech sector and lifestyle brands. When she’s not writing or working, she's happily doting over her husband of twelve years, Keith (and sometimes manages to do all three simultaneously).