There’s such simplicity in its message, but I feel like it’s so powerful.”
– Kelly Hurliman, Wardrobe stylist to Oprah Winfrey
The 5 Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman theorizes, “Unhappiness in a relationship often has a simple root cause: we speak different love languages”. The 5 Love Languages offers a perspective that helps us to look differently at our communication patterns with our partner, children, and/or family. You can go online to take a quiz to rank your love languages. Or it may be more fun to do it with your partner, or children, so that you can compare each other’s results and launch a new pattern of conversation.
Understanding and ranking your love languages allows you to understand yourself and others in new, more positive ways and enhance the joy within your relationships.
We all agree good relationships include good communication; it follows, then, that better communication will create better relationships—and relationships are as resilient as they are fragile. Perhaps you’ve been frustrated by attempts to express love in the past, feeling as though you were speaking a different language than your partner and failing to maintain that sweet space between you in which passion, desire, and lust can be expressed. If you crave more in your relationships, long to feel truly heard by your partner, or yearn to feel closer to your partner, then The 5 Love Languages will introduce you to the common love languages to encourage more satisfying and pleasurable interactions.
Dr. Gene Devers and Associates in Northeast Philadelphia can provide you with a new vocabulary to better understand yourself and connect better with your partner and other family members. Contact us at Philly Family Life Counseling and enter a safe, calm and relaxing environment in which to
- better understand and practice YOUR relational love languages
- rehearse more intimate communication patterns
- enhance your appreciation for each other.
Call 215/677-3810 now and schedule your initial appointment. Let’s discover “What Is Your Love Language” and the ways that words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, and physical touch can make your relationships more enjoyable.
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