The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Communication to Your Mate by: Gary Chapman
Monday, June 8, 2009 at 1:19AM | Heather Hardison | 1 Comment | Share Article Email Article Print Article | Permalink ;)
Review by Dr. Hardison: Due to his experience as a marriage counselor for over 30 years, Dr. Gary Chapman has identified five distinct love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. This book explores each one to help us all understand how we are communicating or perhaps miscommunicating with our loved ones. Chapman illustrates each love language with real-life examples from his counseling experience. Each of us responds to a different love language and it is important to understand which language your spouse is speaking. For instance some husbands or wives may need regular praise while others value gifts, and another will crave focused attention. What is required to fill your “love tank?” Read this book to find out. Learn to speak and understand your partner's love language, and you will be able to love and truly feel loved in return.
Reader Comments (1)
This book is a very important part of my practice as an LPC. I find that so many couples who come for counseling are missing each other due to their diffferent languages. I takes effor to get out of our own box of our language and make the effort to speak other languages. Dr. Chapman also has books on the Love Languages as they apply to teenagers and to children. The one on children is especially helpful as it offers specific suggestions to parents as to how to incorporate this concept into their parenting.