So, this is my third dive into Gary Chapman's love language world. This book, however is aimed at guys, but I couldn't resist peeking. It's the same 5 Love Languages, now directly for the fellas.
My hubby, being the cheeky one actually did the test with me. But get this: today as he's playing chef he turns to me and says "Come on, love, let's speak my love language – help me cook dinner!" Looks like I'll be giving him a hand – all in the name of love of course!

HIGHLY recommend. Deeper understanding of how to love people in different ways. Offers practical tools to figure out your own love language and also noticing love languages of other people. Good balance between stories and facts. Definitely a must read, especially when trying to learn to love someone.

Ease of text should not relate to the quality of the text. Despite a lack of being moved by artificially synthesized “academic” jargon, I was called to these pages like a lover in a storm. Pouring through these pages as if they were made of shrapnel, burying deep into every angle of my core. As to serve as an antithesis of the way this text was written: simple, effective, and to the point.
This book is not written as an iceberg paralleling how most relationships may appear upon 1st glance, but was the message in a bottle that made its way to my shore while I was hungry for relief.

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All couples should read this book. Especially the part about how to effectively apologize ( saying *I'm sorry*). Learning what's important in communicating love is a learning experience and is different for each person you love; partner, your child or friend.

I know, I know, the men's edition? It's what was available. Really, it's the same information.

It shed some light on things I have struggled with.

The Five Love Languages for men is a practical book on how we can further nurture our love for the most important person in our lives. Recommended for men who are looking to become better partners.

This was an awsome book. Geared towards men, it was very easy to get into. lots of pictures, graphs, charts. the questions and format was easy to read. if I were to write a book i would definitely choose this type of format. If you have a husband who needs this book i highly recommended it. It's worth getting this one for men as opposed to sharing the original book.

I've read a few of Gary Chapman's books, and I even own a couple of them. This one was written especially for men and the little interview with the author at the end, even mentions he tried to give it a manly cover. As with most books of this nature, I feel I have to sift through what is given.......what is pertinent to me, what isn't. This book was no different. Some of this was useful, some of it wasn't.

I like his emphasis on strengthening relationships. Everyone has the ability to improve any relationship, but bottom line, they have to be willing to put the other person first. Sometimes this means reaching out of your comfy little box. He illustrates his 5 major points well and gives helpful ideas for application.

I wasn't aware that the book is for married men until I have read it, yet this book helped me know my love language & my family's.

Most people are already familiar with the five love languages from this book: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Each of those love languages is kind of self evident. So why read a whole book about them? Even more, why read a book targeted at men?

The best answers I can come up with are motivation and applicable examples.

The book is short enough that it isn't a huge time commitment. Shorter books also tend to be more on point to the main topic. That makes this book great for picking up, reading quickly, and getting a jolt of motivation to push you into action.

Taking action is made easier by the applicable examples provided in each chapter. There's even a two page spread at the conclusion of each chapter with more than enough suggestions on how to employ the love language. Even if you don't use the examples, they provide enough structure to let you come up with your own actions to take.

I often deride self-help books for including bullet point pages that could easily serve to replace the entire book. I don't think that's the case here. There is certainly filler. The longest chapter is dedicated not to a love language but to handling anger. And there's a fairly useless FAQ section that seems mostly geared to selling other versions of this book (e.g. for military, for children). But the five chapters on the five love languages are concise and actionable. That's an admirable trait in this type of nonfiction book.

I appreciate that the book focuses on some of the potentially problematic love languages. Someone who likes to receive gifts isn't a gold digger. Someone who enjoys physical touch isn't looking for just sex. Your acts of service might not be the acts of service your wife wants you to do. Quality time doesn't have to be spent holding hands while gazing into each other's eyes. Each negative aspect is addressed and explained.

Of course there's also the obligatory quiz at the end of the book. For some reason there's a version for him and a version for her. As far as I could tell, the questions are exactly the same with the pronouns changed from he/him to she/her. You can also take the quiz online to avoid manual score calculation. Or you can just observe your own behavior and your wife's reactions to judge your wife's love language.

I imagine there will be some people upset at the specific viewpoint of this book. It's written to address cisgender heterosexual males married to cisgender heterosexual females. But that's just in terms of pronouns and terms (e.g. "husband", "wife"). The love languages are applicable across all identities. There are even versions for the love languages of your kids.

Overall, the book does a good job of providing the definition of each love language, explaining the motivations of each love language, and laying out action plans to apply each love language.

This was a nice read a few years after reading the original book. I really have no issues with this book - it's an easy read and it has tons of suggestions for how to improve a marriage relationship - highly recommend.

Fantastic for understanding yourself and how you communicate love. There is a great quiz online to help you further figure this out. Also it should make you more sensitive towards other peoples' way of receiving and expressing love. Useful for ANY type of relationship in my view, not only love relationships.