Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86555 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

A Life Changing Book
A few years back I borrowed Gary Chapmans' book "The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate" from a friend. It impacted my life so much, even though I was single at the time and the book is aimed at married couples, that when I saw a book had come out for singles I bought it.

The reason this book will impact your life is because it not only explains how to improve all relationships, from family, to friends and co-workers, but also gives you a deeper understanding of your own behaviour within relationships.

Ever wondered why you feel so hurt by your friends actions towards you? Ever felt one or both of your parents didn't love you? Could you believe that it has to do with how you feel loved? There are five ways love can be expressed, Quality Time, Acts of Service, Gifts, Words of Affirmation and Physical Touch.

One of these expressions of love is your primary love language.

Figure out what your primary love language is and gain a greater understanding of yourself and your reactions. Work out the primary love language of people around you and see your relationships improve once you start expressing love in their primary love language.

This book will help you do just that. I know, because it worked for me.

Very informative
I really enjoyed this book, because it does not belabour the points that it tries to make. The author is obviously a great observer of human behaviour and conveys how we could all improve our relationships by making ourselves familiar with the Five languages of love. Well written to the point and a good read into bargain. This book is on my to keep list, so that I can refer back to it from time to time.It really is that good.

Worth a read - but fails to apply the love language concept to single people's lives.
(For those who aren't familiar with the term 'love languages' this is 'love' in its broadest sense of the word, not meaning romance necessarily!)

As with any book on the five love languages, this Singles Edition will help you identify what your love language is, understand why the actions of others do/don't satisfy your love needs, and understand what makes others feel loved. Its a life-enhancing concept to grasp and apply to all sorts of different relationships.

However, this 'Singles' edition strangely makes minimal effort to apply the love language idea to single people's lives: the examples/applications given are largely based on dating/married couple scenarios! It fails to explore how single's love needs can really be met in non-sexual relationships, or how they can best love to others to build fulfilling, deep friendships - both things I was hoping for as a single Christian man. Why the emphasis on romantic applications in a book for singles? Anyway, Its a great shame Chapman doesn't explore in this book the love and intimacy that it *should* be possible for a single Christians to experience (and offer others) within the church.

So, it doesn't merit the 'singles edition' tag - I wonder how different the examples/applications given in this Singles edition are to those in the other editions of 'The Love Languages'? It felt to me like the 'Singles' tag was slapped on as an afterthought. For all that, the explanation of the love language concept still makes it worth a read, even for single people...