Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1111 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 204 pages

Synopsis
Outlines five expressions of love--quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch--and explains how to identify and communicate effectively in a spouse's "love language.".

Customer Reviews

The Glory of Love!
I have found this book so helpful in my relationship. It's been nice to discover the "love language" my husband resonates with so that I can keep his "love tank" full. Author, Gary Chapman, suggests that we each have a love language, i.e. words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service or physical touch. When partners speak each other's love language to the other, both feel love and satisfaction within the relationship (a full love tank). I love that this book gives people new tools to relating with love. It's really been fun to try out Chapman's suggestions and reap the loving benefits.

Another awesome book that empowers relationships is Ariel & Shya Kanes' How to Create a Magical Relationship: The 3 Simple Ideas that Will Instantaneously Transform Your Love Life. I read this book - this book won the 2007 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Relationships / Men & Women's Issues - and it is accurately awarded! If you're looking to experience the simplicity and magic of loving relationships (with consistency - really!), you have to check out this book. The language of love is easy to speak with the help of authors like Gary Chapman and Ariel & Shya Kane.

A most valuable read for anyone in a love relationship
I found this book most enlightening. Chapman describes how we each have our own natural 'language of love' (eg affirming words, acts of service, touch, etc..) just as we have a mother tongue. He describes how we tend to use this language to show love, and how this may be completely inappropriate for our partner if they have a different love language. In such a case it doesn't speak love at all (as helpful as 2 people speaking completely different languages trying to communicate perfectly). So, the book gives clues to identifying one own's language and that of one's partner so that one can appropriately express love in a way that the partner feels loved. Encouragingly, Chapman includes examples of relationships that have been turned around from the brink of break-up because of these simple lessons.

now you're speaking my language...
Would you like to become a better communicator of love to your spouse? Would you like to reap the rewards of having a spouse whose "love tank" is full, and keeps yours full as well?

Love is a choice, not an emotion. Gary Chapman explains that after the "falling in love" stage of a relationship, which can last up to two years, we settle back in to reality. The rose colored glasses are removed and we begin to see our spouse for the person they really are, warts and all.

When the sparks begin to fizzle, Hollywood tells us that it is time to move on to another relationship. Chapman, on the other hand, reveals that we now have the opportunity to solidify and deepen the relationship through learning how to effectively communicate our love for our spouse.

He introduces us to the five love languages: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service and physical touch. Each of us express our love using these different languages and their dialects. If our language is different from that of our spouse, our expressions of love may not be understood and appreciated.

This book helps us identify and use the love languages that are meaningful to ourselves and our spouse. Chapman uses real-life examples to illustrate each language, with a dash of biblical passages to support his material.

The love languages are simple, and they work -- not only between husband and wife, but with children as well. My wife and I are polar opposites in love languages. By learning to express our love in ways that are more meaningful to each other, our honeymoon is thirteen years strong.

Get this book, read it, share it, apply it, and your "love tanks" will never be empty again.

Larry Hehn, Author of Get the Prize: Nine Keys for a Life of Victory