The Love Your Spouse Well 6-week Challenge

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to take your spouse for granted?  I know that my relationship with my spouse should be my top priority, but it seems like the gravity of life pulls me towards the urgent and away from the important work of building up my marriage.
 
And marriages are not no-maintenance.
 
They require attention and investment. 
 
So, every year about this time I try to move my relationship with my spouse back up to the top of the priority pile by purposefully investing in it some way.  I have often read a book on marriage by myself or with my husband, but this year I had a different idea.
 
What if I leveraged the accountability and support that internet friends can provide, with my desire to make investing in my marriage daily a habit?
 
And so, I have arrived at the: 
​        "Love Your Spouse Well" 6-Week Challenge.
 
I thought I’d focus on a different way to express love to my spouse every week and my mind immediately went to Gary Chapman’s “Five Love Languages.”  So each week I plan to focus on loving my spouse well through one of the 5 outlined in that book:

• Words
• Service
• Affection
• Time
• Gifts

 
You may notice it’s a 6-week challenge and there’s only 5 listed… well, I have another way I think we express love, so I plan to unveil that as a surprise during the challenge!
 
Every week I’ll highlight the Love Expression of the Week in a blog post and then, if you sign up, you can receive daily emails of challenges, suggestions and ideas.  Sometimes we’ll back tackling common barriers to loving our spouses well, other times we’ll be getting creative in how to express ourselves through words, actions, gifts… Always there will be a challenge of the day to keep us on track.
 
I encourage you to share your own insights and ideas in the comments on this blog.
 
If we start on January 3, 2016 and continue 6 weeks, the challenge ends on February 14, 2016 – that’s right, Valentine’s Day!
 
I invite you to join in this challenge to put a little extra love into your marriage –There is nothing to lose and much to gain.
 
Join me in the Love Your Spouse Well" 6-week Challenge.

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