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The Five Love Languages | 
| Author: Gary Chapman
Publisher: Moody Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  588 reviews
Sales Rank: 5925658
Format: Import
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Gift
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
ISBN: 0802473628
EAN: 9780802473622
ASIN: 0802473628
Publication Date: October 1997
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Book Description
Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? While love is a many splendored thing, it is sometimes a very confusing thing, too. And as people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce. Quality Time Words of Affirmation Gifts Acts of Service Physical Touch Dr. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!
Amazon.com
Unhappiness in marriage often has a simple root cause: we speak different love languages, believes Dr. Gary Chapman. While working as a marriage counselor for more than 30 years, he identified five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. In a friendly, often humorous style, he unpacks each one. Some husbands or wives may crave focused attention; another needs regular praise. Gifts are highly important to one spouse, while another sees fixing a leaky faucet, ironing a shirt, or cooking a meal as filling their "love tank." Some partners might find physical touch makes them feel valued: holding hands, giving back rubs, and sexual contact. Chapman illustrates each love language with real-life examples from his counseling practice. How do you discover your spouse's - and your own - love language? Chapman's short questionnaires are one of several ways to find out. Throughout the book, he also includes application questions that can be answered more extensively in the beautifully detailed companion leather journal (an exclusive Amazon.com set). Each section of the journal corresponds with a chapter from the book, offering opportunities for deeper reflection on your marriage. Although some readers may find choosing to love a spouse that they no longer even like -hoping the feelings of affection will follow later- a difficult concept to swallow, Chapman promises that the results will be worth the effort. "Love is a choice," says Chapman. "And either partner can start the process today." --Cindy Crosby. This text refers to the Amazon.com Exclusive Journal & Paperback Book Set.
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 Everyone needs to LEARN how to love July 14, 2008
For those who are clueless, ,which includes just about everyone, this book does show that our differences need not thwart our caring for one another. It is carefully researched and presented, and it is helpful if one pays attention!!
Worth the read July 14, 2008
Worth doing the full read & then understanding the score that your spouse ends up with.
A Must For Every Marriage July 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My husband and I read this book with several other couples during a marriage enrichment class. It helped us tremendously and we didn't even think we had any communication issues! I have recommended this book to dozens of people, and they all say what a positive impact it has on their relationships. It's definitely a must read for anyone interested in learning how to truly communicate with and express the right "love language" to their spouse.
 mixed blessing/torture July 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was introduced to this book by a woman I was dating. Had I know how successful the book would have eventually been for her I would have left at that moment. She was going through a divorce, and now believes this book saved her marriage.
Either way, I finished reading the book as a single man. It did teach me a great number of things that were helpful to me. Granted a number of things in the book are semi common-sense, but it offered a different take on many every day things most people overlook these days.
The things I learned I have applied in everyday life. The few successful relationships I've had since reading this book have been absolutely amazing. The vast majority of relationships I've had since reading this book have however have ended in disaster. Most women I have dated or even had a connection with have, for the most part, shown displeasure or, in a few cases, disgust at my knowledge of my emotions and "love languages".
I do believe that one day the things I have learned may make a marriage great for me. But, for now, as a twenty-something single man it's just wreaking havoc on my love life.
I would recommend, and do, the book to anyone who is married or in a long-term commited relationship. To those of you like me however, that just aren't at the point in life where settling down is a top priority, I'd advise avoiding this book entirely.
 The idiots Guide To: Not offending women June 24, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
My husband and I both read this book in attempts to possibly understand each other better and to have a more "fairy-tale like" relationship. My hope was to read the mens edition and have it make more sense than the emotional ramblings of womens self-help books.
This wasn't any better, the emotional concepts were just written out differently and in lengthy detail as if feelings were a foreign concept to men and that all women rely on emotions as their sole means of communication. It was almost like reading an idiots guide to not being offensive to women. Not every woman is the same, and not all men are the same. There are more than 5 types of people, so five general love languages probably helps some of that group but not all.
The concept of a "love language" is nice but at the end of the day its not really that strange of a concept to imagine your mate probably has specific desires and needs that should be met. This book might be helpful if you luck out and your partner just happens to be among the 5 listed or even a combination of them.
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