I finally finished reading the book "The Five Love Languages" by Dr.Gary Chapman. This was a wedding gift from a very dear friend. It is a very apt gift for a couple. This book talks about 5 different kind of love languages. Similar to different spoken languages, Dr.Chapman says that there are 5 love languages and not every person speaks the same love language.
The author says that depending on the personality of a person, he/she subconsciously speaks a particular love language and hence feels good and loved when actions of their partner correspond to his/her love language. For example a person may feel loved on receiving gifts while another might feel loved through words of appreciation. The author says that the five love languages are "Words of Affirmation", "Acts of Service", "Quality Time", "Receiving Gifts", and "Physical Touch". So a person whose love language is "Words of Affirmation" need not feel loved on receiving gifts. Hence it is important to understand the love language of our life partners and other family members so that we can express our love in a manner they will be able to see, understand and actually feel it. Through numerous real-life examples the author shows how a couple can keep the love in their marriage always alive, just by understanding the love language of their partner. He talks about many of them who were at the verge of separation, but got back together after counseling sessions with the author where he helped them identify their love languages and express love to their partners accordingly. I tried to figure my love language and feel that mine corresponds to 2 out of the 5 listed in the book. In such a case, the author says that there always is one primary love language. The book also has a study guide at the end which may be useful in figuring out our love languages. My next step is to go through this guide with Ajay and pinpoint our primary love languages.
The other one that I read recently is "The Case for Christmas" by Lee Strobel. A mentor of ours gave this book to us and told us about the author 'Lee Strobel' who has written books on topics which are very hard to justify and almost impossible to produce solid proofs like origin of Christmas, Christ, and about creator of the world. 'The Case for Christmas' is a small book with powerful content and particularly good for those who want some evidences about Christmas and all the facts around it and around the birth of Jesus. I particularly liked his approach wherein he investigates cases looking for solid evidences through interviews with well-read and knowledgeable philosophers, professors, and researchers. In this book he categorizes evidences into four kinds: 'EyeWitness evidence', 'Scientific evidence', 'Profile evidence', and 'Fingerprint evidence' and collects information through interviews for each of these categories. He then justifies the evidences quite convincingly. I liked this style of proof through evidences for hard to perceive concepts such as existence of God, Creator, origin of Christmas, etc. I am eager to read his other two works, 'The Case for Creator' and 'The Case for Faith' and hope to find answers to some of the questions that I have always had.
The author says that depending on the personality of a person, he/she subconsciously speaks a particular love language and hence feels good and loved when actions of their partner correspond to his/her love language. For example a person may feel loved on receiving gifts while another might feel loved through words of appreciation. The author says that the five love languages are "Words of Affirmation", "Acts of Service", "Quality Time", "Receiving Gifts", and "Physical Touch". So a person whose love language is "Words of Affirmation" need not feel loved on receiving gifts. Hence it is important to understand the love language of our life partners and other family members so that we can express our love in a manner they will be able to see, understand and actually feel it. Through numerous real-life examples the author shows how a couple can keep the love in their marriage always alive, just by understanding the love language of their partner. He talks about many of them who were at the verge of separation, but got back together after counseling sessions with the author where he helped them identify their love languages and express love to their partners accordingly. I tried to figure my love language and feel that mine corresponds to 2 out of the 5 listed in the book. In such a case, the author says that there always is one primary love language. The book also has a study guide at the end which may be useful in figuring out our love languages. My next step is to go through this guide with Ajay and pinpoint our primary love languages.
The other one that I read recently is "The Case for Christmas" by Lee Strobel. A mentor of ours gave this book to us and told us about the author 'Lee Strobel' who has written books on topics which are very hard to justify and almost impossible to produce solid proofs like origin of Christmas, Christ, and about creator of the world. 'The Case for Christmas' is a small book with powerful content and particularly good for those who want some evidences about Christmas and all the facts around it and around the birth of Jesus. I particularly liked his approach wherein he investigates cases looking for solid evidences through interviews with well-read and knowledgeable philosophers, professors, and researchers. In this book he categorizes evidences into four kinds: 'EyeWitness evidence', 'Scientific evidence', 'Profile evidence', and 'Fingerprint evidence' and collects information through interviews for each of these categories. He then justifies the evidences quite convincingly. I liked this style of proof through evidences for hard to perceive concepts such as existence of God, Creator, origin of Christmas, etc. I am eager to read his other two works, 'The Case for Creator' and 'The Case for Faith' and hope to find answers to some of the questions that I have always had.
