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Summary: Speaks to Christians and Unbelievers Alike
Review: WOW! I have one chapter to go in this book. In just this weekend, I can already see my marriage changing. I am sure if my husband reads it too, I will notice even more changes. I have learned how to 'choose' to love and why the original love experience doesn't last. His concept is so simple that just about any two people could live together successfully, so long as they stuck to his guidelines. WOW! I can't say enough good things about this book.
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Summary: opens the eyes of your heart
Review: This book was recomended by my friend pastor Scott I started reading it and couldn't put it down. It showed me all the things I wasn't doing for my wife that she so needs. Rachel left me and I know why. Now I know how to keep her satisfied when she returns this weekend. Its amazingly simple yet complex but will work I am sure of it. Oh and pray pray pray love all Phoenix
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Summary: a fantastic book everybody needs
Review: This should have been a book written for everybody, not just for those in relationships. It helped to open my eyes up to some of the problems people have in relating to each other.
For instance, let's say somebody's love language is giving gifts and another person's love language is words of affirmation. The gift-giving person gives a gift to the words-of-affirmation person and is hurt, because the words-of-affirmation person didn't give a gift back, or didn't give words of thanks enough. What the gift-giving person didn't understand is that the other person's love language was not gifts, but words of affirmation. The words-of-affirmation person feels hurt because the gift-giving person didn't say anything about how great his job performance was, what a nice piece of poetry he had published, etc.
It is very striking how miscommunication can result from not knowing what is important to the other person as to what represents love. This is not only important in relationships, but what represents a true friend to another person. Although this book was written with relationships in mind, it can apply to other situations as well.
There are five main love languages that the author discusses, and these can applied anywhere. It would certainly help to have couples read this book before they marry, or even close friends. It would probably make for better holidays, also.
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Summary: This book needs a better metaphor!
Review: Chapman's book was recommended to me by both newlyweds and a couple who has been together for over 20 years. My husband and I took it along with us on our honeymoon and have already started recommending it to others.The book's great asset is that it encourages you to examine the ways that you show affection and the ways that you expect to receive it. The latter has been the cause of many a misunderstanding in our relationship; we noticed an immediate improvement once we started taking note of these hidden assumptions. The exercises give you a concrete way to continue to show love to your spouse/partner, that has its own rewards built in. Because we've found this to be so valuable, I give this book five stars. The weaknesses? Chapman's metaphors are clunky (while the concept of a 'love tank' is useful, even the couples I know who love this book cringe whenever they find it necessary to say, "Honey, how full is your love tank today?"). His assertion that there are no more than five love langauges is also adamant but not well-supported. Despite these minor weaknesses, the message and method are so helpful that I would (and do) recommend this to anyone who wants to have a better relationship with his or her partner.
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Summary: Showing love and being heard!
Review: Gary Chapman has written a very important work - important for everyone who wants to have a healthy relationship with his or her spouse. His premise is simple: There are five major ways in which people receive (or feel) loved. Thus, they are The Five Love Languages. Everyone has a love langauage through which they feel loved and everyone can become fluent in each of the five to ensure that their spouse too feels loved too. When I finished reading this book, I thought that the information it contained should have been common sense. However, common sense is not so common these days. Applying this book to ones marriage is not rocket science. The one barrier we all face is that we tend to try to show love in the way we receive it, which is not always how our spouse receives it. It takes some work, but anyone can do it. The Five Love Languages are: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. Chapman based these ideas on many years of marriage counseling. He also examined how love is expressed in various cultures. Looking at the big picture of human relationships, he derived The Five Love Languages. In my opinion, every marriage can benefit from the information contained in this slim book. My wife and I read it together before we got married so that we could start strong. The prinicples in this book have helped us to understand each other and focus on each other to ensure we are sending message of love that the other will clearly understand. Give it a try - I'm certain your spouse will be glad you did.
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Summary: I've Read Better
Review: In my quest to find out what keeps happening in my relationships, this book was recommended to me by a friend. I did not find it very helpful. I find Chapman's view of there only being one or two areas that we need to have fulfilled in our life to make a good relationship rather simplistic. While I do agree that some of the things are more important to me than others I have found other books to be far more helpful such as Are You The One For Me? And You Just Don't Understand Me. To me a relationship is a complex thing and it takes two parties working at it full-time in all areas not in just one or two and sometimes the issues are much larger and more complex than the five simple ones presented in this book.
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Summary: This book RUINED my love life.
Review: I'll make this short and sweet. Before I read this travesty, I was generally pretty happy with my love life. I had had several good relationships with women, but then I read this and followed it's advice, and I have barely talked to a woman since. Avoid this like AIDS.
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Summary: Becoming Close to Your Mate
Review: This book far exceeds John Gray's Mars and Venus series on many levels. Each part of a relationship really is brought into five language choices. Regardless if your "love language" is "spoken" by Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Physical Touch, Gifts, or Quality Time, this book will explain how to express them and how to "speak" to your mate via their love language. The information within the book can be used on many relationship levels - spouse, friends, and even co-workers. Even if you think "a love language for my co-workers?" this book will show you how to speak to them. Some of your co-workers need you to speak their language in order to be understood. This book puts you one step ahead of the game for work as well as your personal life. Half the fun for couples is finding out what language your spouse speaks. After determining the language, an entirely new realm opens for you to explore the possibilities. Couples should read this book to really understand how to speak to their mate. Leaders should read this book to understand how to speak to their subordinates. Single people should read this book to understand the other person in their relationships. "The Five Love Languages" is worth its weight in gold and has improved many relationships of people that I see on a regular basis.
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Summary: You have to get this book!
Review: I filed for divorce from my husband of 17 years this past June. I wasn't open to thinking about reconciliation. A good friend of mine insisted that I read the book just to figure out my own style. So one night, I sat down and read it..and I had my ex-husband read it... We are now working together and communicating like we never did before..it has lead us into counseling..and we both have hopes that we can come back together again, even better than before. If we can't, then at least we can communicate with each other without hostility.
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Summary: I really enjoyed this book
Review: I think if two people are open and willing to try the suggestions of this book anything is possible
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