What Happy Couples Do: Belly Button Fuzz & Bare-Chested Hugs--The Loving Little Rituals of Romance

by Carol J. Bruess and Anna D.H. Kudak

Book Overview

In this charming gift book, more than 50 couples share their clever, touching, and sometimes silly rituals of romance. The authors then explain how these loving gestures, private nicknames, and other forms of endearment help create the enduring bond between two life partners.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577491726
• ISBN13: 9781577491729
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Fairview Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Rituals abound

This is a simple picture/maxim book that is well conceived, well paced, and filled with uplifting anecdotal information about happy couples and the joy they've discovered to, as the authors say, "form enduring bonds between two life partners." Through personal, shared anecdotes, the book addresses issues as serious as being newlyweds, to pet names (little sausage?), to being the captain of your relation--ship. The only drawback we found with the book was that it's too short, but a caffected marriage is, too, so...

Great book

I have read this book with my girlfriend and we both love it. It came fast through the mail too. It is funny and very interesting.

Well Done

What Happy Couples Do is a cute book. It has a lot of different tidbits about what help make some marriages work. There are some suggestions on what any couple could look at to help strengthen a marriage. Easy reading and kept my attention.

perfect gift book...

"What Happy Couples Do" makes a great gift for yourself, your girlfriends, sisters and each of those spring weddings just around the corner. It is artfully designed and a pleasure to peruse. Plus, it's one of the books you'd grab when your own marriage can use a boost. You'll be instantly rewarded with optimism and comraderie; as it clearly reminds us all that every marriage, not just yours, requires effort. This book simply and beautifully makes the effort more fun.

A real joy!

This book is a joy in every way. First, it is absolutely cute to look at- front, back and every page in between. It's charming, but in a cooler way than you'd might be used to. And, secondly, besides the fact that it just looks good on a coffee table or on my bedside table, it's an absolute joy to read. It's kind of like spying, or eavesdropping, on some of your favorite couples' little private rituals and daily routines-- only more fun because there's no guilt! I love reading the short real-life stories that real couples have shared. They are unbelievably touching, silly, inspiring and maybe even a little "whoa!" at the same time. The joy that has come from reading this book, and sharing it with my spouse, has been somewhat of a surprise to me. I knew I'd like reading the stories, but I hadn't realized how it would make me/us think... about what "stuff" we're doing right, and where we could maybe improve. We've even "tried on" some of the rituals for ourselves just for fun. The authors give us real examples along with real research (broken down in to a lay-person's language!) to support why these loving little rituals are so important. And throughout the book, is the underlying message-- our marriages are in the DOING. We choose what to do. Be intentional. Do something. Our choice. I love it. I highly recommend it for new couples, and us "old" couples. So, I'd encourage you to DO something- buy this book. And enjoy.