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The Five Love Languages: Singles Edition
The Five Love Languages: Singles Edition
The Five Love Languages: Singles Edition
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The Five Love Languages: Singles Edition

Written by Gary Chapman

Narrated by Chris Fabry

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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The Five Love Languages work for everyone (they're not just for married couples)...

In this world we're surrounded by more people than ever—yet we often still feel alone. Being single or married has nothing to do with whether you need to feel loved! Everyone has a God-given yearning for complete and unconditional love in the context of all relationships. If you want to give and receive love most effectively, you've got to learn to speak the right love language. Different people with different personalities express love in different ways.

In fact, there are five very specific languages of love: Words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, quality time, and physical touch. 

Dr. Gary Chapman's original bestseller was first crafted with married couples in mind, but the love languages have proven themselves to be universal. The message of this audio-book is now tailored to meet the unique and real desires of single adults.

An Oasis Audio media production.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherOasis Audio
Release dateMar 11, 2009
ISBN9781608146659
The Five Love Languages: Singles Edition
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Gary Chapman

Gary Chapman--author, speaker, counselor--has a passion for people and for helping them form lasting relationships. He is the #1 bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages series and director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc. Gary travels the world presenting seminars, and his radio programs air on more than four hundred stations. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I started reading this on the advice of a friend, and it did help to clarify why certain things, like people paying more attention to their phones than to the other people at the table, bother me so much. I think it will take a while though for this process of evaluation to become a habit for me (something I do without even thinking much about it). I hope it will help me to make my friends, family and others feel more valued, as well as being able to tell others how they can make me feel valued.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A good book, it talks about the five love languages, touch, time, gifts, encouragement, and service. A good book that explained how to accept and give each type of love to your mate. It's for singles but I wish it had of talked more about practical ways to show love to friends, coworkers, and family of origin. Still a good book that after I read I handed to my girlfriend for her to read. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to deepen their love relationship with others.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Wonderful book, it's a must read for everyone. I'm certainly going to read it over and over to apply what I have learnt.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    awesome read. makes you aware of what your neighbor really needs to feel loved and then get the best out of the relationship. Also increases awareness to feelings of those around us. great! Tius
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loved it. Give new understanding and perspective of love. Understand more how to love others
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book! Everyone should have this in their library. It really helped me understand love and how to implement it in my relationship with others.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Amazing! So insightful! Please listen to this! You won't regret it! I actually appreciated it more than the original.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I totally enjoyed reading this! I found it more relatable! I’ll gladly recommend it to anyone seeking to develop the quality of all their relationships.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    great reinforcement of the original with great advice for improving all my relationships!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I think it's a good follow up read after reading the original 5 love languages book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Awesome book, I learnt alot, thank you very much Chapman
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Such a Blessing Every time I get a chance to review this book!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Love everything about the book. 27 years in marriage and with the practical insights in this book? So glad I read this book. Thank you for the gift of this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Why is everyone obsessed with this? Perfect for Christians but doesn’t speak those who arent. Some stuff is worthwhile but while I may agree on the sex revolution chapter we come at it VERY differently, quoted a lot of “research” but sounded incredibly biased. There is lots of research out there it’s easy for us to pick and choose that which we agree with so sorry buddy your biases on married vs not married cohabitation are just that. Stop with the micro agression & shaming.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Years ago, I read The 5 Love Languages and thought that it was a great book. However, I must The 5 Love Languages for Singles was even better. I love that the book discusses so many different types of relationships. I feel better equipped to deal with my own issues and to relate to and speak the love language of others. I can't wait to start putting the tips into action. This book will be on repeat!! Thank you for writing this book and sharing your wisdom, Dr. Chapman!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I'm not Christian but I agree with everything that was said. There's a lot of insight in this book. I have already recommended it to 2 of my friends and there are more with whom I want to share.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great audiobook!! I really recommend this book to whomever is trying to build any type of relationship
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This book seems to be geared for frustrated parents to give to their children. It starts off preaching to tell your parents that you love them and that you appreciate them. Nothing like the original book. What a disappointment of a book this is. I am now reading the original 5 love languages. The original is actually a good book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The concept in this book are amazing and really good. However, I feel the author spoke very fast and makes it hard to follow especially for non American English speakers
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Wow. I learned many things about myself and those around me...things I either took for granted or just didn't know. This book provides insight into why people behave the way they do and I recommend that everyone learn about the 5 Love Languages.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The author helps make relationships more understandable by addressing the unspoken ways we show love and feel loved. My take away is that we should pay closer attention to those we love and do things that help them feel our love instead of just doing what we think they want.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was extremely helpful in explaining love & how to love. I've discovered my very own love language
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When I began reading it, it felt like I started to question my past relationship all over again. Then, I understood why I felt so hurt not only about the relationship but why the way my mother communicates with me hurts me every time, with everything she does and says. I found out my main love language is Words of affirmation and why I couldn't move past the one thing those people said.
    At the emotional stage I'm currently in, I do not desire to fix my relationship with anyone else but me, and this book helped me realize that in order to love myself I need to talk even more with myself and reafirm my love and what I love about myself, spend quality time with myself doing things I love, like dancing, cooking, reading and taking myself out on dates. Finally, doing acts of service for others, cause I just love helping other people out.
    By the end of the book I felt relieved and happy I found that out about myself.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved it! Great tools to make the best of our daily live, helping us to find peace and love in the simpliest things and sharing it with our loved ones.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    i am new to psychology. This is the second paychology genre i've read after "games people play". i feels like i've obtained new power/ability. its so easy to understand and related to. :)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When I began reading this, I wondered how it would differ from his well-regarded book intended for couples. The singles edition contains more information about relating to family members and to co-workers and speaking their languages. Although the book does contain information on dating and applying the five love languages to relationships, the book is far broader, seeking to be a guide for all aspects of a single person's life. This book is on one of the course reserve lists at our university library, and I can see why the professor wanted to use it for the class. It is a great book for a college student or other young adult who is dealing with roommate issues, with dynamics in a work place, and with changed relationships in families due to moving out. Single parents will also find the information in the book useful. Older singles may find it easier to apply the principles in the book for couples than for this one, particularly if parents have died or if they do not have children of their own.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great material, priceless for understanding communication.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed this book a lot. I started reading this book as a single woman and finished dating someone and found it to be very helpful in all of my relationships, not only the romantic one I am involved in currently. It helped me improve my relationship with my younger brothers, and my parents. It also help me better understand how to show my family and friends how much I love them and care about them. It also helped me to understand myself better in what my primary love language is and to learn to not let things hurt me when it is done unintentionally. Great book and very interesting to read.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The main thesis of this book is that there are five different ways in which people can feel loved, and each of us has one or two primary ways in which we must experience love in order to feel loved. Thus, if someone is making an effort to love us, but not speaking our "love language," we will not feel loved in spite of their efforts. The goal of the book is to teach people what their own love language is, how to identify the love languages in which they need to speak to others, and what actions to take to speak in each love language.What surprised me most about the book is that there was no explicit mention of Christ in the early chapters, and I began to wonder whether this book that I had always seen at Christian bookstores was actually aimed at a Christian audience or whether it was just one of those "good" books that get sold at Christian bookstores. What the book lacks most is an effort to define love in relation to God's love for the world and an all-encompassing Gospel presentation. Chapman claims an anthropological background and refers to his "research" on the five love languages, but never describes systematically what this research entailed. Thus, from practically the first page of the book, the reader is expected to assume that what Chapman says about their being five love languages is true, and that everything follows from that. The focus is overwhelmingly on making human relationships better, though it may offer some good advice on how to do that, and not on glorifying or reflecting God through our love for others.I have not read the original version of this book, but there are apparently multiple incarnations for every possible audience, which Chapman cites incessantly throughout. If those versions are anything like the "singles" version, then they are a marketing ploy to repackage the same material over and over again. I did not feel that most of the information in this book reached me particularly as a single; although one strong point of the book was its discussion of single parents and how they need to love their children in their children's love languages rather than the ones that are easiest for them to speak, there is nothing that makes this process different for single parents than for married ones. I got the impression at several points that this book was written because Chapman simply didn't consider a single audience when writing his original book, and because some readers who enjoyed the original but felt slightly left out by it gave him the idea for a sequel. The basic premise that love can be expressed within the family, amongst friends and coworkers, and towards strangers could have sufficiently been dealt with in one book if Chapman had taken a wide enough possible audience into consideration; this book definitely did not inspire in me a feeling that I need to buy his other books if my station in life ever changes.I also wondered why there was so much focus on learning to express love in languages that we aren't comfortable speaking, but not on learning to recognise other people's expressions of love in languages that we don't normally hear. The message of the book seemed to be that if you are expressing love to someone in the wrong language, and they don't feel loved, your efforts don't count. That person has no responsibility to try to realise that you are loving them and to appreciate your effort. This seemed a bit one-sided and selfish to me.To summarise, I would say that I appreciated the description of the five love languages as a way for me to realise that there are needs I can be meeting for others that might speak to them better than the way I try to meet those needs now. However, in spite of efforts to couch this within a Christian framework, it read as a very worldly, self-centred book and did not even manage to scratch the surface of reciprocal communication as well as books by scholars such as Deborah Tannen. I learned something useful, but I wasn't really pointed to Christ as the ultimate source and reflection of true love, and I can easily see readers who don't acknowledge Him as such placing too much hope in human relationships and their own ability to change them as a result of reading this book.

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