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This Book Will Change Your Love Life

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I am a big fan of the Benrik books, which give you wacky ways to live and ultimately change your life. However, this book somewhat falls short. I suppose I was expecting something similar to "This Book Will Change Your Life" in that I would be given ideas to turn a relationship into something truly bizarre/unique/meaningful. I wouldn't want ideas such as "Take a long romantic walk on the beach with your lover," but I would've preferred something such as "Test your communication skills by communicating for a full day with only your eyes, or caveman grunts" or "Have a heated fight in public, complete with throwing drinks at each other, and then passionately make up before the police arrive." (Perhaps I should take matters in my own hands and write my own book?)

Literally half of the book is devoted to the "Logbook," a place where you're supposed to communicate with your partner by either bitching at them for not doing the dishes or for informing them that you're three months pregnant. I find this to be excessive, and a waste of valuable space that couldve gone to actual content.

There isn't always enough room to really record the things that truly make your coupledom unique. I understand that the book was made in jest, but some of the questions that request you to fill in the answer are extremely rigid. For example, not everyone goes on a first date. A relationship could blossom without ever having truly "dated" at all, at least in the traditional sense.

Coming from an interesting pair such as Benrik, I was expecting to be introduced to a new, innovative way of looking at and handling relationships. However, it appears that the point of this book is to poke fun at the rigidity of many relationships' structure (ex. first date, first time having sex, living together, marriage, children, retirement, death). Benrik being who they are, I would've preferred that they celebrated the unusual and creative relationship.

This book is hilarious, and fun, and great to have something interesting to do with your partner. :) LOVE IT. I have other books by Benrik, and they are ALL amazing.

I liked this a lot and it brought me and my boyfriend closer together. I liked "This Book Will Change Your Life" a lot more though.

Not sure what I thought I was ordering but this book wasn't it. It has odd things that you would never think to wright down. Some really funny pages and some that are just...weird.

Don't expect it to bring you closer together but you can at least get a few lasts out of it.

I think this book is great. Not only is it fun to read to see if your significant other has written to you, but it's very interactive and hard to get bored of. My boyfriend and I use it to communicate and talk about things we have a hard time telling each other face to face. It gives us a chance to get to know each other better and to make our relationship better because of our heightening communication skills. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has trouble communicating in a relationship. It's fun, you won't regret it!

great book, don't get me wrong, well printed, well designed, has stuff in there i never though i'd need, the only problem is well the sharing between you and your partner problem. usually when a relationship starts out, you're not going to be living in the same house.. which questions.. where the book is going to stay.. if this was turned into an online thing, where it could be accessed by any of the two members of the couple from where ever in the world, im sure it would be an even bigger hit. plus if the relationship fails, theres no big waste. definitely needs to be an online thing.