31 Creative Ways To Love & Encourage Her: One Month To a More Life Giving Relationship (31 Day Challenge)

My husband and I did the 31 days in January. We absolutely loved it and highly recommend it to anyone looking to reconnect, connect, or just strengthen their relationship with their spouse. We have a 5 month old baby, so sometimes it is difficult to remember to put your marriage first, especially on days when you are straight up exhausted. We loved how the books were written so that not every day is something big, but every day is meaningful. We have personally recommended these books to many of our friends, and are going to put them on the shelf and schedule some time every couple of months to choose a day and do the subsequent challenge. Highly, highly recommend whether you're just married, have been married for 50 years, or are not even married yet. It is so important to invest into your relationship, and these books give you 31 creative ways to do that. I did some of the challenges, and I learned so much about how my husband responds to things I had never even thought of doing before.

We bought this book, and it definitely has practical, easy to do activities and good reads. I really liked it! It makes you think after the book is over. how to apply all the little things you learned for the rest of your life, but you have to make the conscious effort. Good book Bethke family! Thanks for sharing your heart with us!

I love the content of this book and I think it's a great idea for any godly couple. However, I didn't get to start this until this year and upon quickly skimming through the book, I found that my chapters 6 through 9 are not printed correctly. The ink must have run out or something while mine was being printed because it's completely illegible in those chapters.

The book is a collection of 31 half- to 3/4-page suggestions, consisting of a bit of background ("My wife and I found out that if we did this ..."), followed by a suggestion to do similar ("You should, too"), accompanied by 3 or 5 lined blank pages for you to write what you discovered.The suggestions themselves aren't terribly appropriate to my wife and I, as we're either already pretty much doing these things, or it just doesn't fit us for one reason or another.I think the suggestions in the book are good, and couples should be doing these things; it's just that for my wife and I, it's been ... meh. We got about five days in and then decided we needed to hold off on going any farther until we felt that we had made some progress on the first four days' worth of stuff, but since we're already doing those things basically, we haven't really felt like we've "accomplished" anything, and therefore we haven't "completed" those days' tasks.As an example, one day the task was to bring home my wife's favorite treat to her. Well, her favorite treat changes every couple of weeks, and while she's on that fad, I'm pretty good about bringing it to her. So I had to wait several days until she found a new treat, and before she had realized it was going to be her new treat I had realized it would be, so I brought it home to her, and was able to "count" that as fulfilling that task.I'm hoping that as we get back into it again, we'll move into areas that do have more aptness for us, and that we'll then find these books to be as awesome as others have indicated them to be.Having to be as frugal as the economy demands me to be lately, I expected a $13 book to have more substance to it. Had it been $3.95, or had we been Reagan-esque middle-class instead of Obama-ish middle-class, and had $13 that didn't actually hurt to spend, I probably would have given this book 4+ stars.

Full of great ideas to encourage your spouse. Little ideas that mean so much and are different, creative ways to remind each other that you are thinking of them. Another great thing is we all have different love languages so it is fun to see what ways make your spouse feel the most loved.

Excellent book. For our relationship it required us to get a little creative and create other tasks that would better suit our work/life situation. Still in the middle of the 31 days, but hoping that waking up every day and thinking about ways to love and encourage her will become a habit.

I love all of Jeff's book. so simple yet profound. These are short and creative ways to show love and appreciation for your loved one. My boyfriends and I are working our way thorough the 31 ways and looking fwd to do them all!

I ordered these for me and my boyfriend to do as a good couple thing. We love them. It has a lot of good information and ideas in it.

Good book, to be honest there’s a lot of bits that involve preying for your spouse and god and it’s just not something I expected when purchessing this book. Nothing against god or those that believe but for those that do not, it means we are unable to complete some sections, which when you consider the book isn’t cheap, isn’t great.

Excellent

Brilliant engagement gift for my son and daughter in law to be

I did this with my boyfriend - suitable but not optimal for non-married, not living together couples. Inspiring and original ideas and lots of variety. I loved being creative and focusing on what I could be doing it showing to make him feel more valued.

bought it for my sister and her husband, they love it, small simple ideas to change life