Five Love Languages
Enhancing Your Relationships!
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.
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 don’t 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 ain’t happy, ain’t 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
Love becomes a Choice
The need to feel loved is a
basic human emotional need.
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Love Languages Differ
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 I’m really ALL of them!)
Discovering & Using Love Languages
• Romantic Relationships
• Family & Friends
• Children
• Parents & Co-workers25
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! 26
Love is a choice.
Committing to build better relationships is a choice.
Understanding the languages of love leads to better
understanding of others.
Putting the “Love Languages”
to use leads to better
relationships!
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