A framework describing how people prefer to give and receive love, introduced by counselor Gary Chapman in his 1992 book 'The 5 Love Languages.' It sorts people by which expressions of affection feel most meaningful to them — words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, or physical touch. Our free course explains all five, shows how to speak your partner's language rather than your own, and closes with a therapist's honest take on what the idea can and cannot do.
Hugely popular as a relationship framework, but empirical support for the strict claim of five distinct, discrete 'languages' is limited. (Gary Chapman, 1992)