The Topline Summary of: The Five Love Languages - The Secret to a Love that Lasts (Topline Summaries)

The Topline Summary in a Sentence is: seldom do a husband and wife have the same primary emotional love language; if we want our spouse to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.

What’s your love language? And more importantly, do you know your partners’?

This summary encapsulates the key concepts that make up the five love languages as defined by Gary Chapman, who argues that people communicate and feel love in different ways. He explains how important it is for couples to understand how each other and themselves both give and receive love. It is possible for couples to truly love each other, but to truly feel unloved because they don’t think the same about giving and receiving love.

Humans all need each of these different things, but typically there is one that really speaks to an individual heart. Without our primary need, none of the others in any combination will suffice. They include:

1. Physical Touch - this person feels love when others touch them lovingly.
2. Acts of Service - this person feels love when others help them out or serve them.
3. Words of Affirmation - this person feels love when others verbally approve or affirm them.
4. Quality Time - this person feels love when others spend time with them.
5. Gifts - this person feels love when others give them thoughtful things.

By the end of this summary – you’ll know the answers to the opening two questions and a whole lot more to keep your relationship, vibrant, strong and full of love!