Greetings Family!
Well my hubby and I recently started a couple’s book club with some of our friends. We were trying to get together to do something different besides eating and drinking….a foodie’s first choice for social outings! We rotate male/female as far as book selection so we read a variety of genres…book club word people lol! We recently read The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. (Shout out to Brenda for being an amazing facilitator!) Well, let me tell you how profound it was! It is not that these were concepts or ideas that we are not aware of. It was that it made you think about and identify you and your partner’s love language. Your love language loosely defined is what you need to “receive” from your partner to feel loved. We all know that it doesn’t always take the same thing for everyone. The book makes you realize that the love language you are giving your partner is not always the language they need to receive! Obvious, yet profound at the same time. The book outlines the five languages as:
Well my hubby and I recently started a couple’s book club with some of our friends. We were trying to get together to do something different besides eating and drinking….a foodie’s first choice for social outings! We rotate male/female as far as book selection so we read a variety of genres…book club word people lol! We recently read The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. (Shout out to Brenda for being an amazing facilitator!) Well, let me tell you how profound it was! It is not that these were concepts or ideas that we are not aware of. It was that it made you think about and identify you and your partner’s love language. Your love language loosely defined is what you need to “receive” from your partner to feel loved. We all know that it doesn’t always take the same thing for everyone. The book makes you realize that the love language you are giving your partner is not always the language they need to receive! Obvious, yet profound at the same time. The book outlines the five languages as:
Words of Affirmation
Quality Time
Receiving Gifts
Act of Service
Physical Touch
Most often, each person has a different love language than their partner. Also most assume they know their partners language or think it is the same as theirs and they have no idea! So the husband’s language is acts of service ( again what he wants to receive!) and assumes his wife’s must be the same when all she wants is quality time instead of him doing the dishes. Or the wife gives her husband the loveliest gifts and can’t understand why he doesn’t appreciate them but all he wants to receive for her is praise and not gifts because his love language is words of affirmation. All of the couples are married for different amounts of time and all of us had aha moments! From not knowing their own love language, to assuming the wrong language of their partner. It was a most eye opening book club meeting family! And the best part was that no one went home with an attitude….you know how we do lol! Everyone really got it…amazing! So in conclusion read this book with your partner. You will be glad you did! Keep you posted on our next book.
Peace Family!!
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