Five Love Languages

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Five Love Languages

• Enhancing Your Relationships!

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What IS Love?

• I LOVE my wife
• I LOVE the beach
• I LOVE fried chicken

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3 Take-aways

• Why does it matters?
• What are the five languages?
• How do I use them?

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Communication

• Five Love Languages are tools we can use to build
  stronger, more positive relationships.

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Relationships In Life

• Teaching
• Managing
• Leading
• Family

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Relationships

• Relationships help us define who
• we are and what we become.
• Donald Clifton
• Gallup

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Relationships Teaching

• You can get everything you want in life if you
  just help enough other people get what they
  want.
• Zig Ziglar

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Relationships Managing

• People dont care how much you know until they
  know how much you care.
• Lou Holtz

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Relationships Leadership

• To get others go along, you must first get
  along.
• Dr. John Maxwell

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Relationships Family

• If Mama aint happy, aint NOBODY happy.
• My Father

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Why it Matters

• Romantic Relationships
• Family Relationships
• Work Relationships
• ANY Relationship!

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2 Stages of Love
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Love becomes a Choice
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• The need to feel loved is a
• basic human emotional need.

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Love Languages Differ
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Golden Rule

• Treat others the way you would like to be treated.

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Platinum Rule

• Treat others the way they want to
• be treated.

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The Five Languages

• Acts of Service
• Words of Affirmation
• Quality Time
• Gifts
• Physical Touch

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Acts of Service

• What is it?
• How do I recognize it?
• How do I use it?

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Words of Affirmation

• What is it?
• How do I recognize it?
• How do I use it?

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Quality Time

• What is it?
• How do I recognize it?
• How do I use it?

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Gifts

• What is it?
• Presents Presence
• How do I recognize it?
• How do I use it?

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Physical Touch

• What is it?
• How do I recognize it?
• How do I use it?

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Discovering Your Primary Language

• (But Im really ALL of them!)

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Discovering Using Love Languages

• Romantic Relationships
• Family Friends
• Children
• Parents Co-workers

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Using the Five Languages

• Five things I can do that show you I care
• Five things you can do that show me you care
• Do one a week for five weeks
• Review progress and add/delete list at end of
  five weeks
• Lather, rinse, repeat!

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Love is a choice.

• Committing to build better relationships is a
  choice.

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Understanding the languages of love leads to
better understanding of others.
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• Putting the Love Languages
• to use leads to better
• relationships!