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Summary Of The 5 Love Languages By Gary Chapman

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The self-help book I chose to read was The 5 Love Languages, written by Gary Chapman. Published in 1995 by Northfield publishing in Chicago. This book is helpful to me and can be helpful to many more people. It gives outlooks about one personality and is helping couples in their relationship. It gives us the idea of what we want our partner to do and what we need to do for our partner. It helps realize what we forget to do once we’ve been in a relationship for a while. It spices up, in a way, our relationship with our significant other. The beginning gives us an insight of what can be happening in our marriage, and the things we can have lost touch on. Lack of communication, romance, lack of love, and finding love with your partner. The first language of love is Words of Affirmation. This language talks about the love we express with words to our partner. This can be a powerful communication of love. Reassuring someone with our words and giving them compliments are good indicators of our love for them. “Verbal compliments are far greater motivators than nagging words”. The next language is Quality Time. This is when you give someone your undivided attention. This means sitting with your partner and having a …show more content…

I enjoy quality time and physical touch and it has helped me realize that that is what I need from my fiancé in order to feel loved. It has also helped our relationship by learning each others love language and knowing what the other needs. Learning how to love each other in a way that best suits them, you can never go wrong. I think this can impact a lot of couples who are going through a tough time in their marriage or relationship. It can help in counseling and allowing them to communicate better. People who don’t know what to do to make their loved on feel loved, the relationship can die. We have to learn to accommodate the love

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