The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate | Gary Chapman | CAN'T RECOMMEND ENOUGH!!!

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	The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate Gary Chapman Northfield Publishing, 1995 - 204 pages average customer review:based on 609 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Relationship Saver.

If you desire a deeper understanding of your lover, please read this book. I'm not saying it will solve all your problems, but if you read it with a conscience mind and an open heart, you will surely benefit. Thank you Dr. Chapman.

CAN'T RECOMMEND ENOUGH!!!

Oh. My. Gosh!!! This book was a life-changer for us. Totally put perspective into the different needs each of us has in order to feel loved and secure. It teaches it really well and helps you see how to love your spouse better. Then, we started applying it to our relationship with our parents and in-laws, our children, friends from church...etc. It is an amazing eye-opener and gives you so much freedom and power to love people better!! Also, to feel more loved yourself.

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Great book - very helpful and easy to read

My husband and I read this book on the advice of our marriage counselor. We'd been having trouble communicating and had both run out of patience not only with each other, but with our relationship. I think this book served as a great resource. It helped us to approach each other more thoughtfully and to have a better understanding of how and why we operate and react the way we do/have. Regardless of where you are in your life, be it happily married, dating, having marital problems etc., this book offers much needed guidance in managing your relationships with others - especially your partner. It is a quick read and totally worth the investment.

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THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES by Gary Chapman

The Five Love Languages is marriage guru Gary Chapman's book on expressing love and commitment to a spouse. The goal here is to get readers to be able to "fill the emotional tanks" of their spouses, which does not always come naturally because people receive love in different ways.

Chapman begins with explaining his "love tank" idea (which is corny, but good), gives a diatribe against the "falling in love" condition, then outlines his five love languages: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. He concludes with various remarks about love, particularly love as a choice. The book ends with little quizzes spouses can take to discover their own love languages.

The book on the whole feels oversimplified. Chapman does not point out here that the kind of love a person likes to receive is not always the kind of love that same person gives. In fact, he suggests the opposite. Chapman's dialogue with the couples he speaks with (as he reports it) is distractingly stilted and unnatural. Even though the book is less than 200 pages, it drags at times, as Chapman beats the horse on each point.

In The Five Love Languages, things are clearly oversimplified. Nevertheless there is some valuable material here. Specifically, there are two important points to take away: that people receive love in different ways, and that love is a choice and an action. From that perspective, almost anyone who is married can benefit from this book.

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Good Advise

I enjoyed this book. It came highly recommend to me. I also got the CD to listen to in the car. The one "draw back" if it really is one, is that you really do get more from the book if your partner reads it too. You can still apply it onesided but it would work better if you get cooperation. I found it to be interesting and feel that it can be applied in real life. The religious context in the book is not overwelming so if you don't feel comfortable with a religious book know that it is not overpowering.

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