The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

• The Five Love Languages by America's celebrated author Dr. Gary Chapman, has helped many couples in healing their relationships since it first came out in 1995. In The Five Love Languages, the author states that people receive and express love in one of five ways.
• What he calls the 5 languages of love are quality-time, acts of service, physical touch, words of affirmations and receiving gifts. While all these 5 are expressions of love, one specific act is more relevant to each person than all the others.
• That would be an individual's preferred language of love. Most people instinctively express love in a way that is most relevant to them. According to Dr. Gary Chapman, it is important to express your feelings to your partner in a way that can be reciprocated.
• That is to say both partners need to understand and learn to speak each other's language of love.
• This then would be the basis for a long, happy marriage and a healthy partnership.
• According to the author the five languages of love mentioned are exhaustive and complete.
• The Five Love Languages was published by Manjul in 2001 and is available as a paperback.

Key Features

The Five Love Languages has been a consistent New York Times bestseller for the last 16 years.

About the Author

Dr. Gary Chapman's expertise in marriage comes from his own experiences with his wife of 45 years. After the success of his first book, The Five Love Languages, he has written several more along the same lines for singles, children, teens etc. He reaches out to thousands of couples through his weekend counselling programs and hosts radio shows that are aired on over 400 radio stations.