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Practical advice that you can actually practice
You will get a pretty good idea of what the book is about from the book's description/jacket and from the reviews. In short, Person A will feel love more effectively if someone else is "speaking" to Person A in their primary love language. And Person B usually finds it easier to demonstrate love using their primary love language. But if A and B have different primary love languages, the communication can break down.
Chapman does a great job of explaining this in more detail in the book and gives practical ways to use this information. That is what I think is the best part of the book and what makes it so valuable. He helps you to understand his ideas and then gives you ways that you can practice these ideas. And once you take some time to think about the concept, you realize that it isn't hard to do. It makes sense and can become something that is a regular part of your life.
It isn't necessarily easy because some of the things we currently do are almost instinctual but the new ideas really aren't too foreign. So, while it may be hard to actually do something new and different, at least this book makes it fairly easy to get the ideas going in your head. I have found myself reflecting on concepts from this book many, many times since I read it for the first time several years ago. And once it becomes something you can think about regularly, putting it into practice comes easier.
I can't think of too many things better than improving how I show love to other people, whether that is love in a friendship, to family, to my child, or to my wife. It is a different type of love for each and using different love languages helps me communicate that.
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