Book Review: 5 Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman

The 5 love languages is a best-selling, non-fiction book authored by Dr. Gary Chapman published in 1995, this book consists of 151 pages and it took me 11 days to cover it.
The main reason that I chose to read this piece is that I never read a scientifically based book about “Love, Marriage, and Relationships”

Dr. Gary Chapman is an American Author who studied Anthropology and he is also a pastor at one of the American Churches.
His other works include:
·          Your gift of Love,
·         Parenting your adult child,
·         the other side of love,
·         loving solutions,
·          five signs of a loving family,
·         Toward a growing marriage,
·         hope for the separated,
·         covenant marriage, though I don’t read This list, I know that these books are not as best-selling, interesting and meaningful as “the 5 love languages”


As the name suggests the book sums up the simple concept of 5 love languages, Have you ever known that people prefer to get love from their spouses in different ways? Some expect their spouses to show them love by spending quality time with them, others prefer words of affirmation and appreciation, others like gifts, while some others are interested in to help them in house works (acts of service) and still there are others who like physical touch.

The author believes that people’s preference for love can be categorized in the above five kinds, he also encourages us to learn the love language of our spouse and speak in it. It contains a guide of how you can learn both your love language and the one of your spouse.

The Author explains another concept called “Emotional tank”-everyone has an emotional tank of love, and when you didn't get love from your parents or from your spouse, it means that your emotional tank is empty and that is not good for you psychologically, he also links the relationship between Emptiness of emotional tank and adult crime that means if children didn't get love from their parents, chances are that they will commit crimes in their adulthood.

Dr. Chapman also sheds on the light that “in love experience” of couples before marriage doesn't reflect on how they interact with each other after the wedding.  

I criticize the author with the concept he says that you can “love the unlovely”, which he argues that you can love someone who doesn't love you.
Finally, this book is one of the best books written for this topic and I strongly recommend it to you in case you feel comfortable reading books about love, marriage, and relationships.

Thank you for reading my review and your comments are well appreciated.


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