Five Love Languages Enhancing Your Relationships! 1

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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