Summary: Gary Chapman, the Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

In this summary of Gary Chapman's book, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, you will discover the path to marital happiness by learning how to speak your spouse's love language. In addition, you will also learn how to teach your spouse to speak yours.According to Chapman, there are five love languages, which are Words of Affirmation, Quality time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. Within each language are several dialects that can improve the effect of speaking a love language by narrowing it down to specific acts of love. Chapman believes that when spouses learn how to speak each other's love language, their innermost desire for emotional love is met and they feel secure in returning that love. Although Chapman goes through each of the five love languages in depth, providing examples from couples he has counseled throughout his years as a marriage counselor, he also teaches readers how to identify their own love language as well as that of their spouse by taking a short survey at the end of the book. Once readers learn which love language they speak and which one their spouse speaks, Chapman provides them with specific examples of acts that will express their love. In the event that someone has difficulty learning a spouse's language, Chapman suggests strategies that will help them take small steps toward becoming fluent. Readers will come away from the book with a renewed understanding of what their spouses need to feel like they are loved. It is also possible this book could save many marriages from divorce.