The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

Don’t worry about your savings. You will always be a saver, but to invest in loving your spouse is to invest in blue-chip stocks.

Most of the jokes and pithy sayings contain some truth, but they are like offering an aspirin to a person with cancer.

That is why the ancient biblical writings spoke of the husband and wife becoming “one flesh.” That did not mean that individuals would lose their identity; it meant that they would enter into each other’s lives in a deep and intimate way.

They were seeking love in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways

: “Inside every child is an ‘emotional tank’ waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty ‘love tank.’” I

If we want him/her to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

Love need not evaporate after the wedding, but in order to keep it alive most of us will have to put forth the effort to learn a secondary love language

Being sincere is not enough. We must be willing to learn our spouse’s primary love language if we are to be effective communicators of love

People speak different love languages

We must be willing to learn our spouse’s primary love language if we are to be effective communicators of love