Loving the Love of Your Life: 30 Ways to Show Him/Her How Much You Care

by Mark Gilroy

Not too heavy, not too light, here is a fun and creative his and hersflip book to help couples express the love that is in their heart. This two-cover book is a fun, interactive approach for couples who want to grow closer and create lastingmemories together. Husband and wife taketurns reading through topics that give a dose of inspiration, a principlefor application, and an activity for expressing just how much they love theother. The book gets left...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1404187642
• ISBN13: 9781404187641
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Charming, refreshing and lots of fun...

This delightful book was quite surprising. One half is for her, and when you flip it over, the other half is for him. Partners take turns reading insightful and inspiring pages, and then return the book back and forth to each other. There is even a lovely inspiring scripture for every turn. A very creative, fun way to show the one you love how you really feel. My hubby would like to add: hey guys, if you are looking for some interesting new ways that go beyond just candy, cards and flowers to show her how you feel, this is the book for you.

Loving the love of your life

This book is fun for a couple. I personally found this book interesting in the fact that it gives ideas of what you should be thinking and knowing how to make the idea work for the other. The book is a flip book that has a side for the man and the other side for a woman. The book is quick to read since you are reading two pages on ways to show how much you care,for either a man or woman. Ideas are not about buying something, but using what you already have. Great gift for the newly wed or a gift for any occassion. I'll be using it for sure. 30 ideas for each. Nice book to have around. A+

SIMPLY SAID, SURPRISINGLY SOPHISTICATED

I've been married four times, twice and currently to the same woman of that number. My character quirks aside, this little book could well have reduced that number to two. At first look, this different advice to him and her format seemed gimmicky; but it's not, it even seems pretty smart. Basically, I see five different transactional approaches to facilitate communication, interaction, involvement, mutual enjoyment/rewards and engaging a couple. All are simple and basic; but the magic, as for most good, basic ideas, is in the execution. In interpersonal transactions, the magic's more than what's said, it's how it's said. In this book, the writing's personable, warm and charming. And their ideas are the same; warm and engaging. One overall thing, this's a very well-written, well-produced book. Maybe up to gift-giving quality. For a how-to book, it's an enjoyable read. Which is good because an early suggestion is to be creative, take the basic point and expand it your way. A good point is made is that, obviously, all couples and circumstances are different. So fine, take the ideas and do them your way. (They don't emphasize that; maybe they should?) Not really knowing what qualiies as a spoiler, I'll just say that LLYL offers some interesting and promising application tricks, more in how versus what. This is an active suggestiion book calling for small behavior `bites' that add up bringing couple togethers No absolutes re' do this, don't do that'; but nice nudges that add up to surprisingly effective merging. I tried one on m'wife and it got a smiling, warm response. Like I'd said, four time's married. I've belatedly been exploring this relationship thang and have encountered two other books I think are as effective as this; more like companion books, not the same ideas expressed differently: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age and How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days: A Day-by-Day Guide to Saying Good-bye and Getting On With Your Life The first title is more clinical while the latter is obviously about relationships that didn't work; but has unique exercises to `get real' about the emotions of relationships. I found some interesting elements even though my heart's only abit cracked. Good reading, good love, good luck . . .

Basic But Productive

Loving the Love of Your Life is a his & hers book that can be shared. It is just in time for Valentine's Day and would make a cute item to include in a gift bag. It is a quick read, colorful book cover and interactive communication tool...if you choose to handle it in that manner. There are 30 ways to show each other how much you care. The 30 items are not complicated, but very simplistic. There is always room for improvement in a marriage because no marriage is perfect. This book can be fun regardless of how long you have been married. I think it is more beneficial to long-term marriages because after many years go by, couples tend to get wrapped up in kids, pets, work, bills, and buying things...so much so that they tend to take each other for granted. The 30 ways in this book are simple, fun, young at heart and just getting back to the basics. Each chapter has a very fitting bible scripture which is paired with a secular quote, so it relates to all couples.

Add some romance to your life...

"The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness." ~ author unknown While it is tempting to read both sections in this book the main idea is to only read the side for men or women. I of course could not resist reading both sections of the book. Mostly I was interested in all the new quotes I'd never read before. The ideas in this book may at times be simple, like spending time at the zoo or more complex like organizing photographs and cooking meals. I liked the idea about writing ten favorite things you like about your partner and who doesn't enjoy giving or receiving a nice back massage. This book isn't really a Christian book but there were quite a few Bible verses throughout both sections. There is one idea about praying for your partner or leaving notes by your partner's Bible. Some of the most helpful tips are about cleaning up your communication habits. If you can't communicate in a loving way most of the other ideas probably won't be as appreciated. A lot of the ideas are easy to do. How hard is it to give a guy's movie a chance? I think it would be more difficult to get your husband to watch a romantic comedy. Although I was impressed that my husband watched "Sleepless in Seattle" with me again recently. "A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." ~ Brendan Francis The way this book probably works best is if each partner takes turns reading sections and following the advice. In that way it is like a small adventure with lots of surprises. This would make a perfect Valentine's gift or anniversary gift. ~The Rebecca Review