The Five Love Languages

This week has been a busy one. I spent 3 days on a work trip, my first offsite training! It was scary, but fun. I was in Kansas City and Wichita. I felt like it was the first day of school when I was getting ready that morning, I swear I changed my clothes like 5 times. All went well though, and I'm proud to say, I think they are all ready. I rounded with one of our current users as well. For someone who hates hospitals, maybe the healthcare field wasn't the best idea.... I did make it through the day without passing out or feeling sick, so maybe I'm getting better! I hope so at least!


This trip let me have a little down time which gave me the opportunity to finish a book I have been wanting to finish. I bought Gary Chapman's "The Five Love Languages" a few months back and I almost forgot I had it until someone mentioned it to me a few weeks back. Well, thankfully I finally had some downtime where I was able to read it. I HIGHLY recommend this book to any and everyone.

Gary Chapman first wrote "The Five Love Languages" for married couples, but quickly realized there were quite a few singles also reading it so he wrote some other editions including singles, teenagers, and children. I read the Single edition, but plan to read his original version soon.

I found some of the scenarios in the single edition kind of silly and the dialogue very unrealistic, but the message was a good one.

It talks about each person has a primary way that they feel loved by the people in their life. Each person may have a different primary love language, but everyone pretty much falls into one of five categories. The five categories in which a person feels and expresses love are quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, gifts and physical touch. He goes into depth and further breaks down each of the categories and explains each.

It was so interesting to read it and really think about my primary love language (quality time) as well as the love language of those in my life. While he did intend to write this for those who were married (or getting married), it also relates to the love you have for family, friends, significant others, coworkers, etc. It lays out the way to make a marriage/relationship with a gf/bf reach its full potential, not fizzle out after the initial "honeymoon phase," and continue to grow throughout life. But beside that it will help you strengthen friendships and make you the best friend you can be to each particular person.

I plan to use the things I learned in this book to make my relationships grow, to feel closer to those I love and to show them more often that I love them. It may seem like common sense, but you would be surprised how it will relate to you and your relationships with those you love.

I sounds like I'm doing a commercial for this book, ha nothing like free publicity. It's great though, if you're interested Amazon has it for like $8.99.