“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, How to Love

Gary Chapman's book The Five Love Languages is what we're talking about today. This book has been a New York Times Bestseller since 2009.

I read this book several years ago and I still refer to it when I'm thinking about relationships. Chapman outlines five general ways that romantic partners express and experience love, which Chapman calls "love languages". The focus is on romantic relationships but there are other versions that he has written for families to learn how love each other and even for parents to understand the personalities and love languages of their children.

In this book Chapman outlines 5 languages which include the following:

• acts of service
• gift-giving
• physical touch
• quality time,
• words of affirmation

 
Take the quiz. Maybe it will give you information about yourself. Of course it's not an exact science but it may help you understand how you receive love and how you're giving love. Interesting fact, we can often give love the way we like to receive it. However, showing love the way we want to rather than the way our partner or family member needs it can hurt your partner.

Today lets discuss how learning to love helps us and the people we give the love to.

Let's start the meeting.

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