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this book is just truly so helpful and tactical with loving all people so I loved it and recommend that everyone should read it!
this book is just truly so helpful and tactical with loving all people so I loved it and recommend that everyone should read it!
Thoughtful. Would've love more commentary/examples on other types of relationships. Mostly focuses on marital relationships and briefly goes over parent/child relationship. Great suggestions though!
I do think it’s helpful to understand your love languages and there are a lot of positive things involved in these concepts. However, the writing is sexist and odd with religious undertones.
This is a must read for all couples! I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed it. Practical advice on how to grow closer in your marriage, no matter what the current state of it is. You can always do something to improve, and learning to speak your spouse's love language is huge! I would suggest taking the quiz online (5lovelanguages.com) before reading the book (and get your spouse to do so as well). That way as you read it you can know where to make mental notes of things to try to strengthen your marriage and help your spouse feel loved! And you can note requests to make of them to help you feel loved 😊
I'm hardly the first reviewer to note that there are some outdated and sexist examples in these pages. The perspective from which this book was written made it difficult for me personally to take in, but it was first written in 1990, and reviews show it has helped thousands of people, so, to each their own.
That being said, I think the core concept is fantastic. I would highly recommend that anyone interested in deepening their relationships (and learning more about their own role in relationships) should take the author's free quiz, and then invest time into an analysis by someone whose content creation style you like or relate to. There are countless examples available online, and innumerable ways to interpret and implement the concepts that are more modern and inclusive.
That being said, I think the core concept is fantastic. I would highly recommend that anyone interested in deepening their relationships (and learning more about their own role in relationships) should take the author's free quiz, and then invest time into an analysis by someone whose content creation style you like or relate to. There are countless examples available online, and innumerable ways to interpret and implement the concepts that are more modern and inclusive.
The lists of ideas on how to express each love language are about the only thing I appreciated in this book. It is a nifty idea, but the book is oversimplified and infuriating with the gender roles presented.
This book is the perfect book to read at least once a year for a good recap. I love learning about the 5 Love Languages!
I read this as a hopeless romantic and had heard the love languages theory. That part I quite enjoyed, but the book is hideously dated. Lots of the examples make for a very uncomfortable read. Would recommend just reading a website about love languages and avoid this book.
Я точно підкреслила для себе методи, які покажуть моєму партнеру, що я його кохаю та дізналася дещо цікаве про свої
уподобання.
I'm sure it is because I'm so tired of Jesus being thrown in this country's face regarding EVERYthing that I disliked this book so much. Exhausted by it, actually. So, when some parable/bible story/scripture was thrown around in Chapter 3 or whatever, I let it go. Ok, no big deal. But then when we get to one of the last chapters and the author/therapist tells Ann to go home and have sex with her abusive husband based on Jesus's teachings (I do not remember the bible verses he used, sorry) I pretty much lost it.
Then he talked about love being only between a husband and wife. Say what?
Finally, he talked about how sexual predators are likely just people who did not get their love languages met as a child, I was out.
The final chapter is a full-on sales pitch for Jesus himself. I shit you not.
The five love languages make sense, especially in a self-help kind of way, but I couldn't take Mr. Chapman very seriously (see above).
Then he talked about love being only between a husband and wife. Say what?
Finally, he talked about how sexual predators are likely just people who did not get their love languages met as a child, I was out.
The final chapter is a full-on sales pitch for Jesus himself. I shit you not.
The five love languages make sense, especially in a self-help kind of way, but I couldn't take Mr. Chapman very seriously (see above).