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Essay / The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman - 1150
book “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman, the author writes about the importance of communicating with your spouse in a language that fulfills their reservoir of love. Throughout the book, he uses real-life scenarios of couples to help them examine what their primary love language is through various actions and experiences. Love and marriage are the main themes of the book, and the author illustrates how to understand their construction and how they function in society. Love is necessary in all areas to meet the needs of a human being and make a successful marriage. Society plays a big role in what ideal marriages are and how they should be based on the defined responsibilities and rights of husbands and wives. Three articles were chosen based on love and marriage and analyzed in the book. In one of the articles "What Married Woman Want", Stan Guthrie interviews sociologist Brad Wilcox about his study of married women. The article states that women are happiest in their marriages when they receive emotional commitment from their husbands. In Chapman's book, he states that women and men have a primary love language that fills their love reservoir. The five love languages revealed by Chapman are: affirmation, acts of service, physical touch, receiving gifts, and quality time. Guthrie argues, however, that as long as women receive love, affection, and empathy, they are the happiest. I found it interesting to read that she said that women prefer emotional involvement from their husbands over acts of service. “We must recognize that for the average American marriage, it is far more important that the husband be emotionally in tune with his wife than that he do, say, half the dishes or half the laundry” (Stan Guthrie, What Ma...... middle of paper ...... and hoping it would help me in my relationship, I found it to be helpful and resourceful On the one hand, I realized. that my partner and I spoke different love languages. My primary love language is acts of service and my boyfriend's primary language was physical contact. Our languages were not communicated and we neglected them. While reading the book, I followed some of the exercises that Chapman advised me to do At first, my boyfriend didn't understand the reason for the exercises, because he thought I was happy, but when I did. asked him if he was. He said not really. So, while doing the exercises together, we realized that without him speaking my primary language, I wasn't giving him any recognition in his language. I then identified the sociological themes of symbolic interaction, social conflict, and structural-functional functioning in the book.