Excited About 2013!

I’m incredibly excited about 2013. What about you? I brought in the New Year in South America with my wonderful hubby by my side. He accompanied me to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay to interview two couples happily married for the past 25-plus year. It was his first time joining me while I conduct interviews and I could tell he gained so much from the experience.

For one, he realized my Spanish is alot better than he knew (albeit, not nearly as good as it used to be). And he also got a chance to be welcomed into the homes of two of these beautiful couples I’ve been interviewing from around the world. After leaving the second interview he said, “Honey, I want to bring some of this South American hospitality home with me.” I told him, “Babe, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”

There is something about happily married people. They’re just nicer people. I don’t mean to imply those who aren’t happily married are unkind, I’ve just noticed a commonality among all those I’ve interviewed around the globe. They’re some of the most loving, open, hospitable, kind and welcoming people I’ve met throughout my lifetime.

I’m excited to share my experiences with you this year. I needed to wait until I’d wrapped up my travels and visited all 12 countries before I could begin talking about similarities I noticed among the couples. I have one final interview this weekend and Keith is hopping on a plane with me one more time (it’s so much better when he’s with me).

In Buenos Aires, I interviewed a beautiful couple. The wife, Silvina, is one of the top plastic surgeons in the world. Her husband, Marcello, has been a judge the past 20 years. Two powerful people and yet they aren’t jockeying for positioning within their marriage. I loved that. They both began with humble beginnings (that is to say, nothing was handed to them on a silver platter).

They attended public college (in Argentina, college -even for their equivalent of your bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees- are free to obtain through their public college system) and worked their way up the ranks.

One of the things I love most about Silvina and Marcello’s story is how they were able to achieve this great life of success by supporting each other from the very beginning. They were high school sweethearts with dreams. And each dug deep down inside to help the other achieve their life’s goals. And without question, they both succeeded.

Question: Has your husband ever had a goal you helped him achieve? And/or vice versa?

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

Why I Love My Husband (the never-ending list):

39. He walked with me for almost 10 hours straight through the streets of Buenos Aires because I love to walk (I call it “free exercise”…he calls it ridiculous ).

40. When he comes home at night, he’s far more interested in learning about what great thing happened in my day than he is of sharing what happened in his own.

41. He believes in my wildest dreams and is always ready to put his on hold to ensure I achieve mine.

42. He shared with me his favorite Nepresso limited edition hazelnut coffee (even though he’s running low on them).

43. He knows me like the back of his hand and anticipates my needs.

44. Although I work from home, he doesn’t treat my job with any less importance than his own.

45. He forced me to purchase a fabulous leather jacket in Buenos Aires that I would never purchase because it looked to “fashionable” and I am a self-proclaimed plain dresser. But he convinced me I looked “fierce” and I believed him.

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Fawn Weaver

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Fawn Weaver is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 1 million women in over 110 countries around the world. She’s an investor in real estate, tech sector and lifestyle brands. When she’s not writing or working, she's happily doting over her husband of twelve years, Keith (and sometimes manages to do all three simultaneously).