The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages: How 15 Minutes a Day Will Help You Stay in Love

I have read this book multiple times and the information is easy to follow and the author gives a great way to look at relationships. I have recommended this book to multiple people I know; folks who are in the beginning stages of marriage as well as those who have been married for years.

I have been married for over 23 years, and this book is a wonderful resource to bring joy back in your relationship. The book is practical, but also utilizes brain science to substantiate the concepts presented. The exercises are easy and they do work! Wonderful resource for married couples or anyone who wants to create meaningful and lasting connections.

I have been delighted to add this little book to many gift baskets for newly weds as well as share with recent empty nester married friends. Dr. Warner and Chris Coursey have blessed us by teaming up to write this superb explanation of how to find joy in marriage as well as how to get started and practice behaviors that quickly become habits. We need this little reminder now and again and are glad to have this resource on our shelf so that we can get a tune up, and run better together in love.

I enjoyed this book. It has a lot of great insights and exercises that will be fun to apply! I’m taking off one star, because there was no warning that this book has a strong Christian flavor. The authors come back repeatedly to the importance of God in their relationship, and honestly… that left a bad taste in my mouth. (Probably myrrh.) But I still like the book, and I still think it will be helpful to me and my future partner(s).

Quite possibly the best book on marriage that we have read. It has definitely brought my wife and I closer in our relationship, and we were pretty close before we read it. Transformational is the term I would choose to describe it.

This little book uses the acronym PLAN -- Play, Listen for Emotion, Appreciate Daily, and Nurture a Rhythm -- to encourage you to keep the gap between instances of joy in your marriage short. I imagine that if both you and your spouse were willing to do the exercises that sort of thing would actually happen. I think most men (and left-brained women) would have to be very desperate to do most of the exercises, though. Lots of them seem cheesy and forced to me. The excessive "reminisce" will probably not work well for couples who don't have plenty of good years on which to think. If you are looking for a quick reminder of things that make couples feel joy together, this could be the book for you.

Love this author and his simple matter of fact way of saying it like it is!

Great book to do with a couples group! All of the couples in our group were at different stages from newlyweds to 40 years married , all learned and enjoyed this book and the exercises.

This book has brought light to our marriage. It redirects your attention which has taken us from ruins into what I would call doing greatly. I recommend everyone read this. Educate yourself first to help all relationships flourish. Before during or after difficulties. Same concept can ba applied to other relationships outside of marriage also.