When you're married, the person you would most like to love you is your spouse. And if you feel loved by your… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“Discovering your own love language helps you understand why you feel more loved and appreciated by certain people than you do.” — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated,… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Love can be expressed and received in all five languages. However, if you don't speak a person's primary love language, that person… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Before I discovered the concept of the 5 love languages, a bit of advice I was given was to become a student… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if I walk in the house, I don't even bother to find her, I just walk in the den and… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“I look for three things in hiring people. The first is personal integrity, the second is intelligence, and the third is a high energy… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated.” — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Sometimes when the spouse is really the culprit, it is hard to admit what you consider your little failures, but if you are going… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“There is a third truth, which only the mature lover will be able to hear. My spouse’s criticisms about my behavior provide me with… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years of marriage.… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
We all desperately need love. If a spouse in a difficult marriage will learn the love language of that spouse, and they will, with… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“If acts of service do not come naturally for you, it is still a love language worth acquiring. It is a way of expressing… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image