The Five Love Languages has been a topic of conversation many times in my house since I moved in. We use them in our friendships and in our dating life. It seems to help understand the people in our lives as well as ourselves. Every person has a love language or how they feel loved. They are Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Receiving Gifts, Physical Touch, and Acts of Service. It is important for everyone to learn the language that their spouse or friends are in order to make that person feel loved. This could be a great benefit for all relationships. Even though you may be doing things for someone that is you showing you how much you love them, if it isn't in their love language they won't recognize it.
The structure of the book explains each love language and delves even deeper into different dialects for each language. This is to help you in deciding what your love language is. Then it gives some stories in how to use your knowledge of each language to determine your significant other's language or to make them aware of your love language. I liked this book (I know shocker, me liking a self-help/relationship book). It made a lot of sense to me. I learned that my love language is quality time followed by receiving gifts. I've always known that Words of Affirmation was my last. Words don't mean anything to me really, sometimes depending on the occasion. But actions definitely speak louder for me. Check this book out and figure out what your language is and the people who you have relationships with. Maybe it will be make those relationships even better.
5 comments:
There's a lot of good stuff in this book -- it's interesting to me how we might think we're telling someone we love them, but until we do it in their language, they might not understand.
This sounds like a very useful book.
I didn't care for this book. Maybe because I could never figure out what my language is. My book club discussed and everyone else had themselves figured out. I would think of things I do for others but they weren't things I wanted for myself. I must be weird.
It's become very quiet over here -- is everything okay?
Cassie, I will be sending out my ARC copy of The Bleeding Dusk with your mom on Feb 8. I'll try to get it to the bank before then.
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