The Five Love Languages Book Review by Pat Fonda

Like Dr. Gary Chapman writes, falling in love is easy; keeping that love vibrant is the hard part. The first few months and years are usually a breeze, but marriages can start to go wrong quickly...

 

When John and I got married, we were so happy. Ten years later, we have kids, jobs, and tension. Our love is a faraway feeling. We argue and it doesn't settle much. Sometimes things feel good, but mainly we are polite and sort of distant. We just function and get through the week. There is a lot going on inside my head that I am not saying. Where did the love go? What can we do?

This sort of situation starts with a breakdown in communications. The love languages are part of the communications of course. Author and Pastor Gary Chapman studied hundreds and hundreds of married couples experiencing similar situations to the one above and noticed patterns in these couples he was counseling. He realized that the couples were misunderstanding each other's needs. 

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He came up with five love languages, or ways that people in relationships express love: Words of affirmation, Quality time, Physical touch, Acts of service and Receiving gifts. They describe five ways that people receive and express love in a relationship.

I went into this quite a bit in Supercommunicator Spouses, but you can greatly expand your understanding of this aspect of building a happy, successful marriage if your read this book and see for yourself where Gary Chapman is coming from when he reached these conclusions.

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