The speaker Daniel Habif is known for his motivational talks and presentations and enjoys great popularity across various countries. Now, in his most recent project, he teams up with his 24-year-old wife, Anyha Ruiz. Together they present the book “El amor no se ruega, se riega,” a testament to their experiences as a couple and how they have managed to stay together for so long without letting the obstacles they have faced defeat them.

“It’s a good recipe book, and everyone will have to add their own flavor. What is true, though, is that there are many structures, or in other words, there are certain rules. It teaches you to set many boundaries with people around us, to understand certain protocols, but just because they have worked for us doesn’t mean they will work in all contexts. But let’s say that to start a car you have to put in the key, in other words, there are certain things that are so obvious and so everyday.”

This book is very important to Anyha, not only because she poured part of their story as a couple into its pages, but also because she believes that new generations no longer believe in long-term relationships.

“Love seems something discontinued, let’s call it that. Long-lasting relationships seem like things from the past,” she shared, and that is why she believes it is important, through her experiences, to tell readers that this is not the case.

At the same time, in the interview she stated that reliving episodes of her marriage, recalling difficult stages, and furthermore, was not at all simple.

“The process is not easy. The truth is that it hasn’t been easy. However, it has been very comforting in many ways, because some things that we have out there, perhaps tucked under the rug and that at the time we didn’t have the maturity to understand, we kept. Today we can talk and know how the other felt; I think they have healed a little more. Situations we go through when we are together, that we have to face with people outside. Now we have matured them a bit. And you say: ‘Oh, now I understand that you felt badly!’ There have even been forgiveness and apologies.”

Not only they as a couple were involved in recounting the stories that were written for the book; Habif says that in his compilation there were also names of family, friends, and other people in their circle.

“I think the main thing was to respect those who formed part of our story, and for each of those people we were also asking for authorization to mention them.”

He adds that they could not include everything as they would have liked, but what is there meets the objective.

“Obviously we cannot put everything in, because otherwise the book would have been longer than the Trojan Horse. Defining the stories that we placed inside the book generated anxiety at the time. And then knowing how to tell them and then unifying them, standardizing the way in which each of the two of us lived each moment, which was very interesting to discover how, despite having been together for so many years, there were points of view that we hadn’t defined. It was a very cathartic dialogue,” he concluded.

The Book

Title: El amor no se ruega, se riega

Pages: 384

Authors: Daniel Habif and Anyha Ruiz

Versions: Print and Audiobook

Published: February 2026