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The 5 Love Languages
by Gary Chapman
Five ways partners give and receive love
Northfield Publishing first published Gary Chapman's book in 1992. Chapman, a Baptist pastor, describes five love languages, the general ways romantic partners express and experience love: words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service and physical touch. According to Chapman, each person has one primary and one secondary love language. The book includes examples from his counseling sessions and questions to help readers identify their own and their partner's languages.
More about this book
Who
Gary Chapman, a Baptist pastor, and the couples from his counseling sessions.
World
Intimate relationships and how partners express love.
What makes it different
Wikipedia reports it sold 8,500 copies in its first year, four times what the publisher expected, then 17,000 the next year and 137,000 two years later. Tim Challies reported in 2016 that it had passed 10 million copies. By 2013 it had spent 297 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Feel
Warm and practical.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Five Love LanguagesWikipedia
- The Bestsellers: The 5 Love LanguagesTim Challies