Happy Wives Club

In 2010, Fawn was a hard-working businesswoman who loved her husband and cherished their marriage. As a happily married woman, she noticed a disturbing trend. Marriage and wives were caricatured in nearly every form of media, and marriage was getting a bad rap. Frustrated by the constant negative press, Fawn set out to prove not all wives miserable, most husbands do not cheat, and happy marriages do still exist. HappyWivesClub.com was born.

She began writing and posting her thoughts about marriage and shared them with a few friends and one of her sisters. They, then, shared them with friends and family members. The Happy Wives Club was established.

While publishing words of wisdom and appreciation for marriage, she set a challenge to build a community of 1,000,000 “happy wives” all over the world. After she began to build this community of women, she eventually traveled to 12 countries on six continents and interviewed couples or wives that had been married 25 years or more.

The book initially discusses the concept of happiness, and tells the reader that it is an internal choice, "not based on external circumstances" that, in relation to the 12 secrets, is vital to a healthy and happy marriage. The 12 secrets Weaver goes onto states are:

1. Mutual respect between the partners

2. No "Plan B"

3. Trust

4. Work as a team [4]

5. Establish a daily routine

6. Don't take your spouse and your marriage too serious

7. Start dating your partner again

8. Have interests separate from your partner and your marriage [5]

9. Believe in a higher power

10. Put your marriage before everything else [6]

11. Your partner should also be your best friend

12. Surround yourself with other positive couples and individuals

Priscilla Shirer, New York Times best-selling author of The Resolution for Women, praises the book, saying: “Let this stunning and captivating writer take you on a journey-an exploration around the world that ends up at a place far too few women have the sense enough to reach…a place called ‘Happy’.” [7]

Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Making Happy, loved the book: “Get ready for a global adventure-literally-where you will visit modern-day marvels of marriage done right. Fawn Weaver, your personal travel guide, is a master storyteller and pathfinder.” [7]

Doctor Lissa Rankin, author of Mind Over Medicine, states that the book "...is a wildflower spreading hope for the institution of marriage, not as a religious or political institution, but as the opportunity for two souls to evolve together...".[7]