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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book is excellent. However, I dont know that I love the philosophy of putting people in boxes. I think in our society we are trying to pigeon hole everyone and this is one of the ways to do it. Now, if your just looking for ways to understand people and their needs better...or your needs better...this might be the book for you.
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Summary: Why speak Greek to your mate when you can speak in tongues
Review: Being an author and romance/relationship coach I'm always on the look out for good relationship books to read and recommend to others. I highly recommend Dr. Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages for its clear concise strategy to embrace and accommodate the subtle and in some cases radical differences in how we all perceive love. Dr. Chapman takes the myriad ways to show someone you love them and arranges them into five easy to understand and apply categories he calls Love Languages. One or more of these Five Love Languages will speak directly to your heart and the heart of your loved one. You will learn quickly and easily how to evaluate your mate and discover exactly what kind of things you can do that say, "I love you" every time. No more guessing or wondering what to do, how to do it or why. When you know your mates primary love language you will be able to send a message of love to him or her as often as you like. I've always paid very close attention to detail when doing anything romantic, thoughtful or loving for my wife. I was both happy and proud to find Dr. Chapman's five love languages, Quality Time, Word of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts of Service and Physical Touch already incorporated into my marriage. My wife and I have been together for a little over five years now. Even prior to reading The Five Love Languages every one of our years together has been blessed full of love, romance, passion, willingness, understanding and commitment. There is know doubt about it, my wife and I have always spoken to each other in our primary love language and it works like magic. I guess that's what has kept us speaking to each other (in tongues) all these years. My wife and I are proof that speaking to your mate in his or her love language can certainly rev-up your relationship and keep your marriage headed for victory lane. Before love all of a sudden seems Greek to you, get yourself a copy of The Five Love Languages today.
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Summary: Love and communication
Review: Let me begin by saying that my mate and I are both well at ease with our own and each other's established love language styles. Of course it's difficult to place all the complexities of a person's "relationship style" completely within one of the five love languages cited in this book (quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch), but, using these five as a general guideline, my dominant love language is "physical touch", while my mate's is "acts of service". Our relationship functions reasonably well on this basis; if my mate starts moving out of her assigned love language style, as she is sometimes prone to do, I'm usually fairly quick to make sure she gets back into it.
However, despite being quite aware and mostly accepting of our respective love language styles, as recommended in this book, I sometimes suspect that this is not the full picture, and there is perhaps still something missing in our relationship in terms of communication. I'm not sure if perhaps there's something missing from my partner's copy of the book, and she's not fully grasping the issues? Her Spanish edition does seem to have fewer pages than my English copy...
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Summary: A Book Worth Reading
Review: I am a college student who read this book because my Africana Studies teacher mentioned it in class. This book was very helpful in other ways of self expression. It shows that with a positive attitude and patience, things will change and can get better. This book reminded me of "The Seat of the Soul" in the way that it was formatted and the way it read. Anyone who is looking to improve themself as well as gain insight to those around them should read this book. Not to mention that it was a easy read.
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Summary: A MUST READ IF YOU WANT TO KNOW YOUR INTIMATE SELF & PARTNER
Review: My Fiance now back to b/f are finding out our Love language. Our arguements are so ugly we don't see the light at the end of the tunnel which we should supposedly be engaged. For the last 7 mos I was trying to convey to him what my needs were to feel loved, but I only brought nagging and making him feel he's not loving. How could I express to him without him feeling attacked? I picked this book up thinking I'll just thumb through it, I could not put it down. It nailed us to a tee! I read from cover to cover and encourage my b/f to read it. He told me his love language is words of affirmation / acts of service. I feel Receiving Gifts / Quality time is mine. Knowing this helps us to understand, grow and to love. One day at a time.
There are many books about relationships but I believe this book is pure simplicity.
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Summary: This book works! Get the videotape too!
Review: My wife and I teach a small class in church geared toward young married couples. We used this book in our class and it saved the marriage of one of the couples. They were on the verge of separating and now they are stronger than they've ever been. We've shared Gary Chapman's Five Love Language principles with other friends and it has worked wonders on their marriages as well. Our friend is a social worker and he has used this book to improve failing marriages. It works! The Five Love Languages videotape is also great and is recommended as well - Gary Chapman is very funny and a very good speaker. This book is a MUST READ for all couples, even for those whose marriages are stable - it will strenghten and enhance solid marriages. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! For couples with children I would also recommend Chapman's Five Love Languanges for Children and Five Love Languanges for Teenagers.
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Summary: About time!
Review: My wife and I rarely agree on anything. Well, at least BEFORE we read this book together. So now we agree on three books that we couldn't do without, and they're all three at totally different ends of the earth: Louise Hay's YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE for personal self-help, McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD for good-time fiction reading, and THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES for saving a marriage. With the Hay book we found ways of using positive affirmation and dealing with illness. It truly changed our lives and we're better off emotionally, financially, and spiritually for reading it. McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD was intense, dark, funny, and VERY well written. We now own two copies! But above all, we credit Gary Chapman and his FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES for saving our marriage (and sanity). Of all of these listed, THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES is by far the most important for it has held us together and now we're able to share more books, movies, and everyday living. A Big "Thank you" to Mr. Chapman for this contribution to mankind.
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Summary: Psycho-babble Free Zone
Review: I whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to maintain, improve, or save a marriage or relationship. The book is clearly and straightforwardly written in English. It gets to the point without endless or tiring psycho-babble. Mr. Chapman uses realistic and detailed examples to illustrate his points. The reason relationships thrive or fail according to the author is that the people speak and hear in five different love languages. These languages are quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Simply, people are able to love if they are speaking the love language heard by their partner. Learning to understand and speak your partner's love language is simple and Mr. Chapman helps gets you their. Get this book - you will not regret it.
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Summary: Everything just CLICKED
Review: Someone recommended this book and I bought it. I'm really glad that I did. After reading this book, so many things just made sense. I get sad when I don't get time spend with me. My main love language is quality time. I know that know and I can be specific in making requests for what I want and what makes me feel loved. I like how the book has a religious base, but it isn't 'preachy'. It was also easy to understand. There are examples that clearly illustrate anything that may not make sense in the text. Share this book!
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Summary: The Most Important Book of TODAY!
Review: When we read that the family is the core of our society; how the family goes so will society; the death of a civilazation is the result of the family; we are now staring at a critical subject. The pressing point is that over 40% of today's marriage end in divorce. That is what makes this book so important. The author states that a relationship can last 2 years before one the party gets bored and falls out of love. He emphasizes that love must be the result of will and not emotions or there could be a disaster around the corner. He shows how divorce and looking for another spouse is not the answer when 40% divorce their first time; 60% divorce their second marriage and 75% divorce their third marriage. The numbers alone should encourage people to find a way to save the marriage the stats are against you when it comes to divorcing. I have had the privilege of seeing countless of marriages being saved and restored as a result of my wife and I giving this book to those that were ready to give up on the marriages. This is a real book, with real results and with an easy read.
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