Valentine's Day Gift Giving Guide: Gift for Both -- The Finance of Romance: Investing in Your Relationship Portfolio (Review and Giveaway)

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• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. (January 8, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599559803
• ISBN-13: 978-1599559803
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches 
• Buy now at Amazon for $10.92.

Summary:

Creating a strong, romantic and committed relationship is very much like investing in your financial future. Using familiar investment rules, this book walks couples through the requirements for ensuring relationship security in their lives. Don't cross your fingers. Remove uncertainty from your relationship with an analytical approach to your romantic future. If your significant other only reads one relationship book, make it The Finance of Romance.

Read The Finance of Romance and learn:

• How to avoid relationship bankruptcy (page 101)
• Why love alone is not enough to keep your relationship secure (page 7)
• Your relationship credit score (page 73)
• Why love can be as addictive as a drug (page 62)
• Why finance is easier than romance for men to grasp (page 6)
• How bringing a sack lunch to work will make your marriage stronger (page 35)
• How to pay off relationship debt (page 24)
• Where your relationship is on your priority list (page 125)
• Ninety-four simple ways to diversify and reinvest in your relationship (page 94)
• How to spend more time on your relationship even with a busy schedule (page 51)
• The skills to create a relationship budget (page 55)
• Why it’s important to hold hands in front of your children (page 85)
• When to close your relationship account (page 108)
• How to reinvest your profits back into your relationship portfolio (page 93)
• The best way to argue with your partner (page 87)
• Why danger can be good for your marriage (page 66)

My Thoughts:

In order for your marriage to stay intact and you and your spouse to be happy together, one thing is certain -- you both have to be on the same page when it comes to investing time into your relationship -- just like you invest time in your financial portfolio. If you go into your committed relationship with the notion that your love with stay strong and that you don't have to work at keeping the flame alive, day in and day out, then you are setting yourself up for failure, and ultimately the dissolution of your relationship.  Money is the one thing that every couple is bound to fight about and disagree on.  But, if you have the right tools to to talk opening about building a strong financial nest egg for your family, then you will be on the road to a happy and successful relationship -- one that will have a chance of lasting the test of time.  And, if you can work together and agree on money in your relationship, then you can put the time into making your relationship work, and keep it going strong. 

So, many of my friends have ended up divorced or ended long-term relationships due to getting too comfortable in their relationships.  Instead of connecting on an emotional level with their partners daily, they ended up becoming friends just living together, who were traveling down separate paths in live.  And, eventually they forgot whey they were together in the first place.  If only they had read this book by Leon Scott Baxter, they would have had a fighting chance.  I had the opportunity to read this book, and shared it with my husband, and have to say that I have learned where I need to improve as a wife when it comes to connecting with my husband, and how to invest more time into our relationship.  With two girls under the age of 2 at home, we began letting our relationship fall to the wayside.  We were too busy taking care of the girls and making sure we were there for them, that we haphazardly forgot about each other.   In passing we would say "I Love You," but at the end of the day, we were to tired to sit down and be together.  This strain on the relationship was caught early, and with the help of Leon and his tips on improving and maintaining  a strong relationship, we are working harder to reconnect and add that spark back into our lives, that had drawn us together in the first place.  

This is an easy to read and understand book, and one that you as a couple, you want to read and discuss together.  I ended up making notes in the margins, as did my husband, and after finishing each chapter, we talked about how we could apply what we had just read to our relationship.  We began seeing together areas in the relationship that were broken, and ways to bring our disconnection back together.  Truly an inspiring and helpful book for couples looking to make their relationships last, "til death do you part."  

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, why not give each other a copy of this book?  What would you rather have, flowers that look pretty for a few days before they begin to wilt and die, or a relationship that is strong and can stand up against anything that is thrown at you both.  I bet your relationship is more important than materialistic things.  You have to work on your relationship daily in order to keep it strong and alive.  With flowers, you can only water them so much, before you either drown and kill them, or they die on their own.  Let Leon and his book, help provide you and your partner with the necessary tools to truly nurture and invest in your relationship.

---GIVEAWAY---

One lucky reader will win a copy of this book, thanks to the author.  To enter, please complete the MANDATORY ENTRY, and then as many EXTRA ENTRIES as you like.

MANDATORY ENTRY:

Tell me one way in which you invest in your relationship, to keep it strong.

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Disclosure:  I was sent a copy of this book by the author, in order to write up an honest review.  The views above are mine are mine alone.