The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
by Gary Chapman
View on GoodreadsA pastoral counselor's framework arguing that people give and receive love in five distinct "languages" — and that most relationship distress comes from mismatched fluency, not absent feeling.
Core ideas
- The five: words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, gifts, physical touch — most people have one or two dominant.
- You tend to give love in the language you want to receive it, which is exactly the misfire.
- Sustained love is a behavioral choice that fills the other's "tank," not a feeling that maintains itself.
Published1990
Pages232
ISBN9780802492401
ReadOct 2019
