The 50 Fridays Marriage Challenge: One Question a Week. One Incredible Marriage.

After 25 years of marriage, this book helped us start over. We started having dialogs again without judgements and without ending angry. We make time for each other on purposes now. This book saved our marriage. We are happily moving into our 27th year of marriage and 30th year of being together ❤️. Thanks for sharing your experiences and for being totally transparent.

Love the book!

Nice conversation topics for empty nesters, but spouse may not be interested in deep conversations unless they are spontaneous vs planned or cookbook in approach.

We are only on week 2, but what a wonderful way to open up lines of communication between spouses! Very much looking forward to Friday mornings for the next 50 weeks!

Great and interesting

Short chapters that invite us to engage our spouse in conversation of the heart. It can only draw two individuals closer

This is a great Christian devotional. Because I was trying to read it in time to review, I didn't get to go through all the questions on a weekly basis with my husband like the book suggests. I read through it straight, but will definitely be going back to share with Hubby all my highlights!The idea is to share and read one short devotional a week. Pick a day and a time to set aside to converse and connect with your spouse. There are 50 questions/challenges, so technically it would take you 50 weeks to complete. While that might seem overwhelming it really isn't. That is five or ten minutes a week! I hope you would consider your spouse worth that time...or you might want to be looking for other marriage counselling books...The devotions themselves are short. Each challenge opens with a question or challenge, then a Bible verse, the devotion, and then a quote. The devotions aren't just stories from the author's lives like so many other books, but offer a lot of practical lists and ideas. This ALWAYS hooks me. I am a gal who NEEDS PRACTICAL advice!I went over a few with Hubby on a 2 hour car trip. He didn't seem to mind them, which for him says a lot about how good the book actually is. He thought they were the perfect length. The challenges we covered seemed to be not too 'hard' and not too 'easy'. Some of the challenges I read through myself were 'meh' compared to some of the 'better' challenges. I found myself disappointed in those ones. I think the authors set themselves up for a lot of awesomeness and so it really hit me when I came across one that wasn't as helpful.I would recommend this book to all my married friends!! It is a fantastic way to spend time focusing on your spouse each week.--received a copy for review from the publisher via Netgalley!!

Date: 9/3/13Title: The 50 Fridays Marriage ChallengeAuthor: Jeff & Lora HeltonISBN 13: 978-1-4767-0500-2Pages: 176Publisher: Howard BooksCover: PaperbackRating: 4 StarsI'm all for tools that help strengthen or rebuild marriages. The 50 Fridays Marriage Challenge is an excellent tool. My husband and I are only on the second week, but we did skip ahead to read some of the other challenges just to see what we were getting ourselves into. Upon inspection I found that this book is perfect for those couples thinking about marriage, newlyweds and for those married couples who are looking for the missing piece in their marriage or those trying to figure out ways to find themselves back to their spouse.Each Friday, perfect for a date night, the couple is to ask, answer and follow up the given question. Questions such as:* "What was the greatest thing that happened to you this week?"* "What was your greatest challenge?"* "Evaluate your physical intimacy. What would you like to see changed?"* "What physical characteristic of your spouse do you like the most?"* "What are the simple phrases that describe your desire for your marriage?"These 50 questions range from spiritual to intimate to financial issues that married couples face. I recommend this book to any couple as state above. It is great for married couples, however, for those who are not sure if their potential mate is good fit, you should get and utilize the practices and questions in this book."I received a free copy of this book from Howard Books, for my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own."

not a very good read probably just me but was bored.