Five Love Languages, The

As many married couples can attest, learning to communicate with your spouse can be one of the greatest challenges of a marriage. Despite best intentions and honest caring on both sides, couples can sometimes end up feeling disconnected from each other, and uncertain how to improve their unhappy situation.

In The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, Dr. Gary Chapman offers couples in this situation a valuable tool in relating to one another. Drawing from over thirty years of experience as a marriage counselor, Dr. Chapman has identified five love languages—five ways that people communicate and understand emotional love. These ways of expressing and receiving love can be as different as Chinese from English. If you express your love in "English" when your mate only speaks "Chinese," you both will surely end up dissatisfied and confused. Your spouse will never "hear"—and more importantly, never feel—your love in the way you intend to show it.

As all couples eventually learn, euphoric feelings of being "in love" aren't enough to sustain a marriage over the years. In the same way, Dr. Chapman explains, feeling love for our spouse is not enough. We must learn to communicate love in a way our spouse can understand, using some variation of the five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. Dr. Chapman offers a thorough explanation of what each love language means and how people use it to communicate affection and commitment, all illustrated with real-life examples from his counseling practice. Throughout this book, readers will also find assessment tools to help determine the primary love language of their spouse, and to identify their own!

Olive Tree offers seven Love Languages titles by Gary Chapman, including:

• The Five Languages of Apology, by Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas
• The Five Love Languages for Singles
• The Five Love Languages of Children, by Gary Chapman and Ross Campell
• The Five Love Languages of God
• The Five Love Languages of Teenagers
• The Five Love Languages: Men's Edition

Each title may be purchased separately, or you can can purchase The Five Love Languages Collection, which includes all seven titles at a reduced price.

Dr. Gary Chapman is a minister, counselor, and author. Drawing on 30 years of experience as a pastor and a marriage counselor, as well as his own 35-plus years of marriage, Dr. Chapman has expanded his Five Love Languages book series to specifically address the needs of teens, singles, men, and children. He is author of numerous other books, addresses thousands of couples throughout the country at his weekend marriage conferences, and hosts a "A Growing Marriage," a national radio broadcast that airs on over 100 stations in the US. Dr. Chapman also serves as senior associate pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He and his wife Karolyn have two grown children.