The 5 Love Languages of Gary Chapman is a book about the different ways how a married couple express and interpret their love for each other. According to Dr. Chapman, a marriage counselor, the secret to a lasting love is to know and understand your partner’s love language.
The 5 Love Languages are the following:
1. Words of Affirmation
2. Quality Time
3. Receiving Gifts
4. Acts of Service
5. Physical Touch
Mark and I have taken the Love Languages Assesment here to know how we send “kilig” to each other. Here’s my score:
Love Language Scores:
5 Words of Affirmation
10 Quality Time
2 Receiving Gifts
5 Acts of Service8 Physical Touch
I won’t post Mark’s score anymore so that I’ll only be the one to know it 🙂 But, we both scored highest in Quality Time and lowest in Receiving Gifts. This means we both value each other’s attention. While we, don’t mind receiving gifts or not. My score is really close to the truth. I really value quality time with my family.  I’m disappointed when a family event is cancelled or when a supposed to be “date” is postponed. Meanwhile, I am a good listener that’s why I also want my love ones be attentive when it’s my time to talk or express myself. Well, this is me!
Mark and I talked about these love languages of ours to better understand each other. Some couples think that their partner does not love them anymore because they are expecting the other love language that their partner is not capable of. But the truth is, their partner is expressing his/her love through his/her love language. And that’s what they have to know and talk about.
This book will be a great help to married couples and the soon-to-be married ones. I think some pre-marriage seminars here in the Philippines are already using these concept to better understand the couple’s love language before getting married.
I’ll definitely get a copy of this book soon! 🙂
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