The document discusses the five love languages: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. It explains that people experience and express love in different ways, and that communicating effectively requires learning a partner's primary love language. It emphasizes that speaking a spouse's love language meets their deepest emotional needs and allows them to feel secure in the relationship.

1. Love Languages

2. Speaking different
languages
makes good
communication
difficult

3. Love Languages

4. How was love expressed
in your family?

6. If we want to communicate
effectively with our spouses, we may
have to learn their Love Language..

8. When the emotional tank is low, feelings of love go away

9. When I feel loved by my
spouse, I feel secure and my
sense of self-worth is fed.
If she/loves me, I must have
significance.

10. Five
Love
Languages

11. Words of Affirmation1

12. “I can live for two months
on a good compliment.”
- Mark Twain

14. Verbal compliments are far greater
motivators than nagging words

15. Encouragement requires empathy and
seeing the world from your spouse’s
perspective. We must first learn what
is important to our spouse.

16. Quality Time
Quality Time
2

18. Emphasis is not on what
you’re doing but on why

20. Togetherness is focused
attention, not proximity

21. Doesn’t matter
what you do

22. Creating memories

23. Receiving Gifts
3

26. Gifts are visible symbols of
love that have emotional value.

27. You can learn to be a
proficient gift giver

28. Doesn’t have to be
expensive or often.
It has nothing to do
with monetary value
and everything to do
with love!

29. There’s presents and then there’s presence…

30. The Gift of Self
The gift
of self

31. Acts of Service
4

33. Doing things you know your
spouse would like you to do

34. Requires thought, planning, time,
effort, energy… and a positive spirit.

36. Need to learn
their dialect so
we can do the
right things!

37. Physical Touch
5

38. Some people emotionally yearn
for their spouses to reach out and
touch them physically

40. Which love language
does your spouse speak?

41. When an action doesn’t come
naturally to you, it is a greater
expression of love

43. True Love
Just do it, whether you
understand it, like it, or want to.

45. Love is a choice

47. If I know their
primary love
language and choose
to speak it, her/his
deepest emotional
need will be met and
she/he will feel secure
in my love.

48. Each partner
holds the key
to changing the
emotional
climate of the
marriage.