I Just Discovered the 5 Love Languages – by Cassidy Gard

Couples spend on average 2 hours a day together, including weekends. 80% is spent watching TV, eating, and doing house work together... Sad? Quality time is one of the 5 love languages needed for a healthy relationship. Make it a point to spend quality time together doing fun activities!

So, there is this couple having trouble in their marriage. The wife says, "I cook for him. I clean for him. I bring his shirts to the cleaners. I take care of the kids all by myself morning, noon and night. He doesn't ever help me. I just don't think he loves me." The husband says, "All she ever does is criticize me. She is always complaining. I don't know what I need to do to make her happy." What's going on here? Is this couple doomed? According to Dr. Gary Chapman, author of The 5 Love…

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Love and Marriage Reading Plan Day 3/5. "If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love…

Ithink we were standing outside the back door, out by the white pickup under the Big Dipper, when I turned and said it. Said I hated him. The dark can make you brave. Or a

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Have you heard of the 5 Basic Love Languages Study by Gary Chapman? They have now released a children’s book to help the kids understand that everyone has different ways they show and experience love. A Perfect Pet for Peyton tells the story of Penny and Peyton on their birthday and their exciting adventure to ... Read More about A Perfect Pet for Peyton

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1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!

The first time I read the book, The Five Love Languages, was like the first time I went to the eye doctor and was fitted with a pair of eyeglasses. Suddenly, I looked at the world in a whole new way. Everything was crisp and clear! This book made me see people and relationships in a more clear way. The author, Gary Chapman, found in his marriage therapy practice that couples express and interpret love through five languages: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of…

Meeting my wife's need for love is a choice I make every day. If I know her primary love language and choose to speak it, her deepest emotional needs will be met and she will feel secure in my love. The 5-Love Languages by Gary Chapman

With apologies to Gary Chapman for playing on his well-known "Five Love Languages" theme, I asked 24 pastors how a church member might speak to each pastor in his own love language. Here's what I found out!

"This book (and a few others by Chapman), through the grace of God, saved my marriage ten years ago. I am not even exaggerating. Jeremy and I are opposites as well. My love languages are acts of service and gifts, while Jeremy's are physical touch and words of affirmation. We couldn't understand early on in our marriage why the other person didn't feel loved...." (read the rest of Monica's story in the comment below) Have you heard of the 5 Love Languages? The 5 Love Languages is a book that…