400 Creative Ways to Say I Love You [Paperback]

Alice Chapin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 27, 1996

This practical guide for married women suggests 400 fun ways to put romance back into a marriage.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Living Books; first edition 1981 edition (August 27, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0842309195
• ISBN-13: 978-0842309196
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,116,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved all 400 creative tips provided in this book., March 29, 2001

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Jennifer (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 400 Creative Ways to Say I Love You (Paperback)

Great book, the advise given is very practical, nothing dramatic, nothing too far fetched. I thought all the ideas given in this book were either romantic, fun, creative, seductive, sweet or just plain loving.

I don't think I need to slave over or impress my partner, but I do enjoy doing special things and catering to him from time to time and this book gave me great ideas to work with. It has a old fashioned tone and I thought that was great.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, Creative and full of useful advise, March 27, 2001

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jason johnson (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 400 Creative Ways to Say I Love You (Paperback)

Relationships require hard and constant work. This book provides the reader with useful information that men and women both can use to better their relationships.

The book offers many ideas for telling your husband or wife how much you love them, how much they mean to you and it gives you some fun and creative ways that all of us can use from time to time.

Lots of the tips and information found in this book is common sense, but there's still alot of information a person can gather here. I recommend this book to all people, especially couples.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good For A Guide, January 25, 2010

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Melody A. Mclaughlin "MelodyAMc14" (TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 400 Creative Ways to Say I Love You (Paperback)

I bought this book and read it from cover to cover. I see how many sensitive over femenistic girls could be really offended by what is written inside concerning how to show love towards husbands, yet I don't believe the fault is in the book but in the mindset of the readers. I don't believe this book is belittling to the female gender by what it suggest. I do see how a woman would wear herself (and her husband) out by trying to do everything in it. I think a problem here is the the readers get the impression that this book is a collection of commandments for poor belittled housewives from a God-like author who thinks she knows best. They forget that this book is a book of suggestions from other wives of America based on what worked best for them. Let's face it, not every man really enjoys having his wife hang his baby pics and other shots of his family up on the wall for the world to see and not all guys would want their wives to insist on sticking sour cream on their bakes potatoes for them. A man would feel smothered if a woman tried to religiously do EVERYTHING this book suggests and would probably feel he has a younger mother instead of a wife.

Really I believe the point this book is trying to make isn't that a woman needs to sacrifice her freedom and life for the sake of a happy husband but that if we (guys or gals) are willing to just make the distance and take that one extra step to show that we truely love the one we are married to, even when it is hard, unsatisfying, and almost seemingly unfair, that it's then that we'll actually prove our expression are true. The three simple words "I love you" don't prove anything unless their are works to complement them. And I believe if more people realized this there would be a smaller divorce rate.

This book isn't the "How to Keep a Fiery Marriage Bible". As I said before not everything in it will apply to every man in this world. For me the book works best as a guide for what I can do to show my husband that I love him. I took a pen and experimented with the book by trying and purposing different suggestions and writing out his reactions inside. Things that didn't apply I blotched out, some I changed around to be more fitting for his unique style, I wrote down his reactions to things I did and opinions of some of the different suggestions. If anything I learned more about him from doing this and I believe that in itself is well worth time and effort.

And as for the girls out there who feel it's belittling and makes them feel like they have to be a man's slave instead of wife, I don't see a problem with that cause I've realized that what goes around comes around and that this is Especially true between a married couple.