The Five Love Languages

Author: Chapman
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: If you're not a hermit, you should read this! You should read this book. I've recommended it to every couple I know. This book will help you handle relationships with friends, neighbors, spouses, children, colleagues, and even everyone. A great book to reignite hope! I've been married for four years and have long passed the honeymoon phase. Recently, my husband and I have been trying to find marriage counseling. I've been searching for a cure for our marriage, but this book changed my life! Now, my husband and I finally understand what the other truly needs. A must-have wedding gift! When friends get married, this is the only gift I choose!! If my husband and I had read this book two years earlier, we could have avoided two years of suffering!
Everyone has an emotional love tank, and relationships can only thrive when this tank is filled. However, different people's love tanks need to be filled with different languages. Dr. Chapman discovered that people basically have five love languages: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Many misunderstandings, barriers, and arguments between couples stem from not understanding or ignoring each other's primary love language. When both partners actively choose to use the other's primary love language, they can develop a strong intimate bond and positively handle conflicts and failures in marriage.
This book will guide readers to overcome the myths and barriers of gender communication, fill their own and their partner's love tanks, and embark on an inner revolution in marriage. Since its publication in 1992, this book has sold over 300,000 copies in three years and over 1,000,000 copies in ten years, translated into 20 languages, and distributed globally. It has remained on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for 50 weeks and recently climbed the New York Times bestseller list.