Gallery: Understanding Love Languages May Save Your Marriage

Have you ever felt like you and your spouse are speaking different languages? Has your relationship become a war of "I thought you knew already" or "I didn't understand what you meant."  Most importantly, do you feel like your spouse isn't noticing any of the ways that you try to show them support, love, and affection? Good communication is vital to a marriage, and without it relationships will fail. A book written by Gary Chapman called The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate  explains that even though your tongues are not speaking different languages, your hearts may be. 

Knowing your love language means figuring out which way you give and receive love the best. For example, I feel love most when I am able to talk about marriage with my husband and when he communicates with words how much I mean to him. Although this may be a simple way that I can feel loved, my husband is servant hearted and would do anything for me at any moment. While I appreciate that love he gives me, it doesn't fulfill my soul in the way having a great, loving conversation would.  You may give love best by being thoughtful and giving gifts to those you love often, yet you may receive love best by embracing and feeling physically close.  There are five different love languages that we will talk about, and each of them are valid ways to give and receive love. Read through and figure out which one you and your spouse are and have a conversation with them about how to love each other in ways that you can best receive each others love!