very practical book of advice. May seem a bit basic at times but in those times of stress it can seem helpful to just have those friendly reminders to go back to. Recommend!

Lists to Love By for Busy Wives gives practical tips to improve your marriage. I have to admit it wasn't quite an easy read for me, even though it's simple and very well structured.

This is a must read for newlyweds, married couples, and people in committed relationships. To make a marriage work you have to invest time. Even though we are all busy there is always time. The discussions/exercises are an excellent tool for couples to have an open dialogue with each other and communicate better. I highly recommend this book to remind you of how important it is to communicate and work on your relationship.

A nice book to help remind us how to better love our spouses. I enjoyed the reflection questions at the end of each chapter. I did not read through this with my husband, but it was a good tool to help me focus on where I need to improve!

I greatly enjoyed reading this book. It was a fairly quick and easy read, but it packed several punches. Mr. Merrill and his wife, Susan Merrill, both have blogs where they write posts meant to encourage and challenge folks to improve their marriages and their families. In developing these books, they took their most popular posts and, using modern internet analytics and user comments, further developed these lists into these handy books. These "listicles" are easy to read, take only about 10 minutes to read, and would be excellent to read together with one's spouse, prompting great discussions. Nothing terribly profound here, just lots of really good, practical Biblical wisdom. I appreciated the Scripture references, the brief self-evaluations, and the practical application steps. These books would be excellent presents for newlyweds or for those who have been married for decades. Truth never goes out of style, and it's always good to be reminded of the basics of excellent marriages. Thank you, Merrills, for writing these books!

I gratefully received these books as eARCs from the authors, publisher, and NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review.

Just a quick fun...I'll use this as a quick reference guide on "those" days.

Being with my High Sweetheart for 21 years now and married for 17 I still found so much practical and useful ideas in this book. Whether you're newly married or married a lifetime this book is an amazing resource to build your bond of marriage stronger than ever before. With user friendly advice that you'll remember for a long time. I highly recommend this book.

I enjoyed this book. It is a great one to read and discuss with your spouse. There were quite a few times where I was writing down quotes from the book to remember. The reflection questions at the end of each chapter allowed me to connect in a new way with my spouse, see things from his perspective. I am planning to get a copy of the actual book so I can go through it less quickly with my husband.

Great book! I found this book to have wonderful and practical solutions for the every day challenges within a marriage. My hope is after reading this book that I will be able to implement some of this very practical advice to improve my marriage.

Inspirational and wonderfully written Christian book full of wonderful advice, direction, and guidance for woman to enrich their marriage. I received a copy through NetGalley.
Each chapter covers a topic, words of wisdom, and reflection questions. Read the highly recommended, engaging and interacting Christian book for wives.

Lists to Love By for Busy Wives is a companion book of Lists to Love By for Busy Husbands. These two books don't take a lot of time to read and yet have some creative and practical ways for spouses to bridge the gap and improve their relationship.

Each Lists to Love By book contains thirty lists. I like the way these books have been designed. I like the idea of reading and applying a chapter a day for a month,

The text of both books are generally the same. I think there should be a special if you buy both of them. Each book is written from the viewpoint of the spouse so there is some content that is specific to each gender. For example there is a chapter on pornography for men and a chapter on hardening your heart for women.

Some of the topics I found the most useful were:
The texts to send your spouse.
What he really means when he says this...
How to affair proof your marriage.

They recommend knowing the love language of your spouse which I have found helpful.
It is a fast easy read. You can read it with your spouse to see what resonates with them even if they are not willing to read it. There are questions that you can ask each other to discuss further and learn more about each other, again even if your spouse doesn’t want to read the book they man participate in the questions and discussion.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy of this new book. I enjoyed the book, but it wasn't quite what I expected. It was filled with great reminders on marriage, and had some really good points in it. It was a great reminder on how to love, how to honor your husband, how to live in a faith based marriage and how to remember why you married him in the first place. It's well written and easy to read, and I liked the personal antidotes in the book.

The downside was it wasn't really new. I have read many similar books in the past, and the same advice seems to be in all of them.

So it was good, but not groundbreaking. 3/5 stars on Goodreads.