The 5 Love Languages Workbook
By Gary Chapman
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The essential companion book for #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages®
You want to be able to love effectively and truly feel loved in return. The 5 Love Languages® workbook provides the sure steps to meaningful, relational connection. This workbook provides lessons—designed for individuals, couples, or small groups—focused on the invaluable love languageTM content. It includes interactive questions, quizzes, charts, and diagrams—all aimed at helping you better express love and identify areas for development.
Loving well for the long haul is a challenge. How can we ensure deep, growing relationships amid the demands, conflicts, and even boredom of everyday life? Combine the insights of The 5 Love Languages® with this practical, interactive workbook for deeper levels of joy and intimacy!
Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman--author, speaker, counselor--has a passion for people and for helping them form lasting relationships. He is the #1 bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages series and director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc. Gary travels the world presenting seminars, and his radio programs air on more than four hundred stations. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.
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The 5 Love Languages Workbook - Gary Chapman
INTRODUCTION
WELCOME to a labor of love.
The twelve lessons in this book were created for one purpose: to strengthen and deepen your loving relationship with your husband or wife. The process won’t be easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is. This study will pose some challenging questions. It will take you outside your comfort zone. It will even require you to do homework.
But this isn’t busywork. These lessons give you workable strategies for applying the principles of The 5 Love Languages. They offer glimpses of your relationship’s potential when you and your spouse speak each other’s love languages.
If you’re working through this study alone, take heart. Your solo efforts will likely have a profound impact on your relationship. Throughout The 5 Love Languages, you’ll find accounts of extremely dysfunctional relationships that not only survived but thrived thanks to one partner’s commitment to learning his or her spouse’s love language.
If you’re working through this study as a couple, let patience, grace, and humor be your companions. Learning a new love language can be difficult, and there’s more than a little trial and error involved. Show your appreciation for your spouse’s efforts to communicate love in ways that are meaningful to you, no matter how clumsy those efforts are at first. And be sure to let him or her know when those efforts hit the mark.
If you’re working through this study in a group, pay attention to what your fellow group members share. Inspiration and wisdom can be found in unexpected places. In your interactions with group members, be generous with your encouragement and sparing with your criticism. Ask appropriate follow-up questions to show your interest in other couples’ success. See The 5 Love Languages Leader’s Guide on pages 106–107 for helpful suggestions in facilitating group discussions. In addition, make sure to download the eBook packet to print off certain worksheets found throughout the book at www.moodypublishers.com/978-0-8024-3296-4. Scroll down to the Free Resources
tab to access the packet.
Regardless of how you approach this study, you should be aware that the lessons in this book will require a significant investment of time and effort. There’s a lot of important material in these pages. But it’s virtually a risk-free investment. You will see dividends. And the more of yourself you pour into this workbook, the greater your dividends will be.
Enjoy the journey!
GARY CHAPMAN
OBJECTIVE
In reading this chapter, you will learn how becoming fluent in your spouse’s primary love language helps you work smarter
in showing love in a meaningful way.
WHAT HAPPENS TO LOVE AFTER THE WEDDING?
INSTRUCTIONS: Complete this first lesson after reading chapter 1 (What Happens to Love After the Wedding?
pp. 11–16) of The 5 Love Languages.
Love languages: five distinct methods people use to communicate and receive emotional love.
Primary love language: the love language that most profoundly impacts a person and causes him or her to feel loved.
OPENING QUESTIONS
1. What’s been your experience in learning—or trying to learn—a second language? How adept were you in learning the language? What were your biggest challenges?
2. Understanding love languages involves celebrating our differences. In what ways are you and your spouse different? Which differences present the biggest challenge?
THINK ABOUT IT
3. In chapter 1, Dr. Chapman tells the story of a man he met on an airplane. What red flags do you see in the man’s relationship history that highlight the need to learn our spouse’s primary love language?
4. Put yourself in the man’s position. You find yourself seated next to a renowned relationship expert who invites you to share your relationship history with him. What would you tell him? How would you summarize your major romantic relationships? What common threads do you think Dr. Chapman would find in those relationships?
5. Keeping love alive in our marriages is serious business.
That’s why, as Dr. Chapman explains, you can find advice in countless books, articles, TV and radio shows, and websites. List some of the pros and cons of turning to these sources for relationship advice.
6. Dr. Chapman writes, "Most of us grow up learning the language of our parents and siblings, which becomes our primary or native tongue." That goes not just for verbal and written language but, to a certain extent, for