The Five Love Languages: Men's Edition: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

The reading was a little difficult at me for times. However, the concept and the understanding that came from this book has changed every relationship I have had since for the better. It is a wonderful way to get insight on your own needs and actions, the actions and motivations of others, and figure out how to compromise for everybody's benefit.

Worth reading!

If you're not sure if your words are getting through your partner think again. If you are familiar with the famous 5 love languages then you're in for a treat as this is applied to men. How they experience and give love. Definitely worth a read.

I am not a man I am female, but I wanted to see the views of the opposite sex. This book is almost an duplicate of the Original 5 love languages. Not surprising.

Para Conocer Más Acerca De Tu Propio Language Del Corazón Ocupas Leer Este Libro Que Recomiendo Altamente “Los Cinco Lenguajes Del Amor Para Hombre “
Hay Secretos Para Descubrir Los Detalles Que Ake Gustan A Tu pareja y También Tips Para Amarla Más .

Not because this is worse than the original book, but because it is essentially the same book. The Men's Edition adds a four-page Introduction and changes the phrasing in a few places, otherwise it is identical. There's no need to read both.

It may be a cliche, but it is nevertheless true, that communication is the key to good and lasting relationships. It's equally true that different people communicate in different ways. We're all familiar with some version of this story (which is also recounted in the book): a wife comes home complaining about her day, her husband offers a solution to her problem, she ignores it, and they both get a little more miserable. The trouble is that the wife just wants him to shut up and listen; the husband wants to roll up his sleeves and solve the problem. He doesn't understand that his solution isn't wanted at the moment and she doesn't understand that he's genuinely trying to be helpful. We've all been there, I suspect. This book, short as it is, is full of similar stories and advice regarding the sources and solutions to those problems.

And that's both the advantage and disadvantage of the book. It's advice, by and large, is sound. People do communicate differently and following a set of steps (like the ones in the book), they can learn to more effectively communicate with each other. This will almost inevitably improve relationships. Of course, understanding people can be prohibitively difficult. Just ask a psychologist, psychiatrist, therapist, or counselor. These are people who have spent years--sometimes decades--of intense study of human behavior and they still don't have all the answers. It would be ridiculous to think a book of fewer than 200 pages could solve all of their problems.

On the other hand, people are also quite busy and good advice, even if it's imperfect and incomplete, packaged into a book that can easily be read in a single sitting can be quite useful for those people.

So the real question is: is the advice in the book sound? The answer is complicated. The foundational theory behind this book (and the others in its series) is that there are five "love languages," that each person "speaks" a different one, and that the key to communication within relationships is understanding and speaking one's partner's particular language, even if it's different from one's own. This theory is almost certainly an oversimplification. It's based on anecdotes from the author's career as a counselor rather than empirical research, and the actual research on the topic has been mixed. My best (educated) guess is that it's probably not true that communicative styles fall into five factors with each person focusing primarily on one of them. However, it does seem--informally--like a useful framework for teaching what ought to be the basic and habitual communicative skills within any relationship.

That's where I think the book's value lies. Regardless of the empirical support for the "love languages" construct, it gives the reader something to hang his (or her) hat on when trying to improve communications. The actual advice following from this construct, as described in the book, is pretty simple. Indeed, I'd even go as far as to call the vast majority of it common sense material that everyone ought to already know. However, it's clear that a lot of people simply never learned how to communicate within a relationship, and if they did, they never bothered to put the lesson into practice. For those people struggling to maintain a relationship despite a breakdown in communication, this book might be a godsend.

Admittedly, it's not for everyone. Some will find it too cheesy, occasionally overwritten, often oversimplified, and certainly focused on a very traditional type of relationship or marriage. With apologies for the reference to the book's title, that's simply not the language everyone speaks. That having been said, if you don't mind a book written with a bit of a "fatherly" tone, I suspect most people would benefit from heeding its advice.

It's certainly not the kind of book I'd ordinarily pick up. I usually describe myself as "allergic to the self-help genre." But it was given to me by a friend, and upon reading it, I was pleasantly surprised to find that, despite its flaws and oversimplification of complicated psychological phenomena, it actually does offer good advice.

Excellent reference for understanding how we vary in the ways we show our love and want to accept love. Really helped my wife and I.

I really liked this book. It has the same ideas, and even some of the same stories that the couples edition has. I did feel that this edition is a little more concise and to the point, so it didn’t seem as long. I highly recommend this to any man who is in or wanting to be in a relationship! It is directed more to men, but I felt it is just as beneficial for women.