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The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
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 TouchDr. 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!Click here for the Study Guide for Spouse and Group Discussion
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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614 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Can save your marriage!!!
I could have saved myself much heart ache and pain if I had read this book 20 years ago. I could have spaired myself the pain I caused my wife by becoming withdrawn and angery by her lack of attention towards me. If you truely desire to save...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Reasonable concept, meh execution.
Talk about something running out of steam. Was this guy being paid by the word? There was some incredibly repetitive stuff, and somehow it got moreso as it went along. I also object to the frequent Bible references. Cite some other things. Sure,...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
YOU'VE GOT TO GET A MATE FIRST!
I loved this book because it taught me so much about how to understand and communicate with my significant other in his own language. I would never have been able to identify it on my own, much less know how to respond even if I could identify it....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
Everyone needs to LEARN how to love
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!!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
Worth the read
Worth doing the full read & then understanding the score that your spouse ends up with.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Must For Every Marriage
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...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
mixed blessing/torture
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.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
The idiots Guide To: Not offending women
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...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
GREAT Learning!
This book has been a great help in understanding my children's love languages and just people in general around me. I use it at work and with friends. It is a great help!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
IS LOVE REALLY A CHOICE?
The concept that love is a choice we make has been batted back and forth for many years. I remember the first time I heard that, in The Road Less Travelled, and it made sense. But what about chemistry? Some would argue that love is an indefinable...
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