The 5 Love Languages Hardcover Special Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts

I was once asked to read this book by the only person in the world I love.....I refused. At the time I figured it to be some shrinks opinion on how we should all be in our relationships....what the hell does he know I thought.....what if he is wrong and my future wife bases our whole future on just what he says.....I imagined this book to be some guy with opinions on how to fix problems that he knows nothing about because he doesn't know "us". It's not a good feeling as a man to agree to read a book on relationships because you feel like you're putting everything into the authors hands.....and what if he "doesn't understand" or what if the advice doesn't apply to us.....what if it makes things worse between us because he advises things we don't believe in.....no....I'm not reading that I told her.I thought no matter what we would always figure each other out and we would be ok......I didn't see being asked to read this book , was a cry out from the woman I love hitting a boiling point and her attempt to communicate to me in a different way......the same things she's been trying to for a long time.....Being close minded that day costed me so much regret and misery....I used to wake up to the most beautiful smile in the world and now I don't....I recently ended up reading this book and I couldn't put it down....sounds crazy but it's true. Instead of being some guys opinions or......typical shrink talk that in no way could apply to each specific relationship.......I found it to be a book that opens up the mind to the understanding of love.....and how it is not this one universal "language" we all feel we should be the same with.....I once told her...."nobody taught me how to love, I'm growing....learning".....I pleased with her to understand I love her.......we simply didn't have an understanding of how and why we didnt approach love the exact same way as each other.....only makes sense that it should be the same right? You bicker and argue and it drives you crazy......why doesn't she understand you think.......the book is not an excuse to use or justify a true bad relationship let me add.....but it truly answers so many questions.....it is really a language of love. Once understood, this book leaves you feeling like a fool and only wanting to apply so much of what you've now learned to your future together. It takes away the work of trying to understand the things that at the time make no sense.....and allows you to focus on what's important....loving instead of wasting precious time. Read it carefully and I recommend reading it together.....I didn't get that chance but I can guarantee reading this book with who you love will allow you both to stop frequently throughout the pages and talk,learn,smile, probably cry.....but then go on to a much happier fulfilling life together once the book is closed. It can save so much if you only let it.*Update 12-1-17I drive a bus so I have nothing but time to think as I look out the window and look up at the sky looking around me. You would probably think of screaming kids and noise but for me it is driving in my own little world and using time to think about lifeI am a trainer so I spend my time trying to help people learn how to maintain their body and prevent problems. And the funny thing is that it is are very choices of what we do to our own bodies that I am teaching to have to change. All of our problems nutritionally and physically and even mentally come down too poor choice and repetitive habits that we know we need to change but never do until it's too late. Every single person reading this can relate to thatMy point about what I do is that I spend a lot of time trying to fix my body because professionals out there either won't take the time to do it or I don't have the money to spend on who is needed. I have spent countless months doing stretches and exercises and what I have found is a lot of times I'm doing the exact same stretches and exercises that don't seem to be working. Soooo......why not do different ones then right...... what a lot of reasons it may feel good, you may not know any other stretches or exercises, you may simply believe that if I just do it one more time again tomorrow....THAT it will finally help..... you just believe in that stretch so much that in your mind you just say I'll keep trying. You are maybe even making things worse by this but you're honest to God intentions are to completely cure one of the biggest problems in your life, pain...... I think you see where I'm getting at.Getting a little long for whoever is reading but there is a lot of meaning here that can help who knows thousands of people as long as this review remains online......I will just end it like this..... last night I took a stretch that I have been doing for over 2 years and I changed it in a slightly different way....... a lot of the pain I normally get daily is gone.......just to put a spotlight on that sentence .....I'm saying that what I had been doing for so long..... trying to cure one of the biggest problems in my life that hadnt been working............that I continued doing........ believing in and depending on.... to be my much needed answer.......It wasn't until I allowed the idea of the same stretch applied in a different way, that I ALLOWED life to be better for me.I did not say this stretch doesn't matter anymore and say forget it to never exist again.....no, I used it to COMMUNICATE with my body in the same exact physical form....just different language from mind to body....because I always believed in it.Belief can be amazing and help you....it also can be your own worst enemy when refuse to change your ways.....lots of time I lost believing my way instead of another.....all while would have given anything to accomplish my goal......once again I stood in my own way......but I didn't give up.....otherwise pain would still be here and I wouldn't have came on here to add all these thoughts.You have to go into the book with an open mind because if you do it with the mindset of wanting it to say what it is that you want to hear.....then you can never let the life-changing words happen.......you're learning a language as you read...not what's right and wrong but what was being lost in life.Keep in mind this is a book about the language of love so if you think about when you go to school to learn a different language...you are taking the difficult step of taking time there in order to understand.....be able to take what you understand and apply it.....and be able to communicate in a NEEDED way once you learn....AND THEN USE......communicate and UNDERSTAND eachother.Just think how you feel when you meet somebody and you want to communicate but you can't and you get frustrated. you are trying to figure out what you want the other person to know and they're trying to tell or show you..... it becomes stressful and sometimes you end up walking away from each other never knowing the real meaning that was right there between the two of you. When you are able to speak the same language this simply does not happen.....The same two people if we're able to learn the same language, could come back in front of one another again and.....just imagine......imagine the possibilities with that communication.......so much never lost again.The exact same message and the exact same feelings that were always there, except now instead of the stress of not understanding, there is the excitement for anything to be possible just by coming together and understanding.....The power of language is amazing........think of when you meet somebody and they're able to speak five or six different languages, you are in awe and wish you could do it.well imagine being able to speak the one language in life that is the most unexplainable, powerful language and meaning of life, love....I would also like to mention the fact that if these two people sat down and learn each other's languages together how helpful that is.....and how much easier it is to be able to learn how to communicate with the exact person that you're trying to ........spending time helping each other learn different languages.......TOGETHER.Bus is parked.

In living our lives, we eventually realize that we don’t know everything about this or that particular endeavor, specifically committed relationships; so that when our relationships do not prosper as we had hoped, and disappointment settles in, we soon realize how important it is to seek out and learn from those who are well learned and highly experienced in helping us to successfully navigate the unseen pitfalls that prevent our most valued or important relationships from reaching their full potential, as much as reasonably possible. As one who has read and studied the Jewish and Christian scriptures (Holy Bible) for the last 4 decades, and recently within the past 2 calendar years began to read and study the Muslim scriptures as well (Holy Quran) - being the third monotheistic and Abrahamic originated faith, comprised of: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in order of their individual appearance on the world stage of history; what I especially appreciate about this particular book (The 5 Love Languages), is that the author has utilized the rock solid foundational principles from humanity’s great source of wisdom, intelligence and knowledge - the Holy Scriptures - and expertly utilized those principles as the unerring framework to showcase his many years of hard won experience in helping struggling couples in committed relationships to successfully navigate the unseen pitfalls inevitably present from time to time in our most valuable and life sustaining relationships. Well worth the monetary resources and time spent to purchase and read this life changing book. A wise investment, promising a huge return, for every couple in a committed relationship seeking a transformational change in their most valued and cherished human relationships!

Well, I wish someone gave me this book before my marriage of 15 years fell apart 12years ago. Since that didn’t happen, I have made sure that my kid, who is about to get married, got one. It really helps you to see and maybe appreciate something you did not know about yourself and maybe your spouse or partner didn’t know either. For me it helped me see part of why my marriage fell apart. I don’t want to ever do that again. So, I got this book to help me learn more about me. It may help me in the future as well. I hope it helps a lot of others as well.

I was so impressed after reading this book, that I have been buying several copies at a time, in English and Spanish, and giving to family, friends, friends of my adult sons and coworkers. It is not a magic bullet, and won't cure all relationship ills, but I am now of the opinion that any relationship that endures without understanding the principle laid out in this book, is like winning the lottery! Pure luck!!

This book is an eye opener. How many couples go through life not understanding that people perceive love in different ways. Successful couples are those who understand and meet what their other half needs to feel loved, not what they think love means. This book addresses this beautifully and I highly recommend it.

This is a book every couple should read. Definitely a good eye opener into what the other person needs.

Good size of letters, good book and it was worth it.

Truly insightful and very interesting! This book not only helped me understand myself and some of the feelings and emotions I have been experiencing in my marriage but also why my partner reacts and thinks the way he does. I would definitely recommend this book to any married couple and also people who would like to understand how to love others in different ways!

The book gets a lot of good reviews but to my disappointment there isn't much wow factors of it. The content is rather expectable, not much depth. Though the points are good, but the writing is rather lack or profoundness. Recommend for light readers, not recommended for readers who look for depth.

This is a great book and good job to the author. A lot of valuable information and insight. But ill have to agree with other reviews about the pages being weirdly cut?? I actually cut them a bit more myself so that they feel a bit normal cause it was just uncomfortable to even turn the page.

Libro fácil de leer. Bastante claro y conciso. Me parece que no busca vender humo sino que te dice claramente que no hay recetas mágicas para las relaciones de pareja, sino herramientas para que cada quien utilice y mejore. Bastante recomendable.