The Five Love Languages of Men

Aug 18–19, 2005 - comment

Today our focus is on one of the most elusive aspects of communication: learning to express our love persuasively. Great thinkers agree that love plays a central role in life, it’s a primary human emotional need, yet for most of us love is a most confusing word. Why is that so? Today we will have as our guest Dr. Gary Chapman, noted psychologist and author who has counseled, studied, and written about the way we communicate the languages of love for more thirty years.

Gary says, “I can’t tell you how often I hear stories from men about how they just don’t know how to convince their wives that they love them. Every married man I know would like for his wife to be happy in her marriage. When he got married, he intended to make her happy and hoped that she would reciprocate. Many of the husbands I meet feel they have sincerely tried, but many have been unsuccessful in creating a happy marriage. It is my conviction that happiness in marriage is the byproduct of feeling loved. Emotional love needs to be nurtured. Yet, culture has done little to help husbands understand the nature of love, and how to communicate it.”

Certainly every couple needs to know more about communicating their love to each other in ways they each will understand. Gary’s book, The Five Love Languages: Men’s Edition is an excellent tool for a husband to glean more ideas on how to express their love to their wife. One of the ways we can help our listeners here at For Faith and Family is by passing along books such as Gary’s to assist our listeners in learning the skills they need to convey the love they genuinely have for their wives.

topic(s): Family, Marriage

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