Gary Chapman

Brent was thinking and feeling what hundreds of thousands of husbands have thought and felt through the years. It’s the “I don’t love her anymore” mind-set that gives men the emotional freedom to seek love with someone else. The same is true for wives who use the same excuse

Almost never do two people fall in love on the same day, and almost never do they fall out of love on the same day

I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me

e just grew further apart

Books abound on the subject

No matter how hard you try to express love in English, if your spouse understands only Chinese, you will never understand how to love each other.

But a few months after marriage, she started complaining, about petty things at first—like my not taking the garbage out or not hanging up my clothes.

The problem is that we have overlooked one fundamental truth: People speak different love languages.

Most of the jokes and pithy sayings contain some truth, but they are like offering an aspirin to a person with cancer.

Most of us grow up learning the language of our parents and siblings, which becomes our primary or native tongue. Later we may learn additional languages—but usually with much more effort. These become our secondary languages.