The Five Love Languages PROFILE FOR WIVES Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, or Physical Touch?

The Five Love Languages PROFILE FOR HUSBANDS You may think you already know your primary love language. Then again, you may have no clue.

chapter fourteen APERSONAL WORD In chapter 2, I warned the reader that “understanding the five love languages and learning to speak the primary love language of your spouse may radically affect his or her behavior.”

chapter thirteen CHILDREN AND LOVE LANGUAGES Does the concept of love languages apply to children? I am often asked that question by those attending my marriage seminars. My unqualified answer is yes.

chapter twelve LOVING THE UNLOVELY It was a beautiful September Saturday. My wife and I were strolling through Reynolda Gardens, enjoying the flora, some of which had been imported from around the world.

chapter eleven LOVE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE Love is not our only emotional need. Psychologists have observed that among our basic needs are the need for security, self-worth, and significance. Love, however, interfaces with all of those.

chapter ten LOVE ISA CHOICE How can we speak each other’s love language when we are full of hurt, anger, and resentment over past failures? The answer to that question lies in the essential nature of our humanity.

chapter nine DISCOVERING YOUR PRIMARY LOVE LANGUAGE Discovering the primary love language of your spouse is essential if you are to keep his/her emotional love tank full.

chapter eight Love Language #5 PHYSICAL TOUCH We have long known that physical touch is a way of communicating emotional love.

chapter seven Love Language #4 ACTS OF SERVICE Before we leave Jim and Janice, let’s reexamine Jim’s answer to my question, “Do you feel loved by Janice?” “Oh, I’ve always felt loved by her, Dr. Chapman.

chapter six Love Language #3 RECEIVING GIFTS I was in Chicago when I studied anthropology. By means of detailed ethnographies, I visited fascinating peoples all over the world.

chapter five Love Language #2 QUALITY TIME I should have picked up on Betty Jo’s primary love language from the beginning. What was she saying on that spring night when I visited her and Bill in Little Rock?

chapter four Love Language #1 WORDS OF AFFIRMATION Mark Twain once said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” If we take Twain literally, six compliments a year would have kept his emotional love tank at the operational level. Your spouse will probably need more.

chapter three FALLING IN LOVE She showed up at my office without an appointment and asked my secretary if she could see me for five minutes. I had known Janice for eighteen years. She was thirty-six and had never married.

chapter two KEEPING THE LOVE TANK FULL Love is the most important word in the English language —and the most confusing. Both secular and religious thinkers agree that love plays a central role in life.

WHAT HAPPENS TO LOVE AFTER THE WEDDING? At 30,000 feet, somewhere between Buffalo and Dallas, he put his magazine in his seat pocket, turned in my direction, and asked, “What kind of work do you do?”