The 5 Love Languages
Disclaimer
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| Enjoyment (between 💀 and ❤❤❤❤❤) | ❤❤❤ |
| Writing style (between 💀 and ✒✒✒✒✒) | ✒✒ |
| Reading language | 🇬🇧 |
| Reader's age | 27 |
| Pages (Kobo Clara HD) | 158 |
What's it about?
Gary Chapman is a couples therapist. He has seen many couples through difficult times. Inspired by scientific studies, he experimented with his clients on how to save love and both partners in a relationship. He primarily focuses on married couples losing their spark, but his model seems applicable to all couples, and to some extent, even to non-romantic relationships.
What I appreciated
- A very concrete model, usable in everyday life.
- A scientific approach through article reviews and experimentation.
- The book is clearly structured. It takes us through the five main concepts, how the author discovered them, and how we can detect them in our daily lives.
What I disliked
- It only focuses on married couples. Is it different without marriage? In friendships? I understand he released other books specifically to answer these questions.
- Gary Chapman acknowledges than we can have a secondary love language. Why stop there ? Why not three or all five ? Or a sixth that he may have missed ?
Overall a good read, but stay alert : such big questions are never completely answered.
Some gems
True love can only begin once the honeymoon phase ends.