Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

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Welcome back to the Excel Stillmore program. Today is episode 58 with what is probably a familiar

title to you, Five Love Languages. There was a book written in 1992 by a man

named Gary Chapman, and he first coined this phrase and laid out these five categories of affection,

and it really took the world by storm. He sold something like 8,000 copies in the first year, which actually was four times his

projection, 17,000 the next year, 137,000 copies by year three.

Soon after that, he found himself on the New York Times bestseller list and the rest is kind of history.

And just to be clear, while I'll be giving you a synopsis of that book today and challenging you in very specific ways as it relates to the five love languages,

I highly recommend that you get the book and read it if you want in-depth analysis

of each one of these categories. Okay, so I recommend today that you find a sheet of paper and a pencil

so that you can write some of this down today. Maybe you can write down the five love languages

if you aren't familiar, and there are a couple of exercises at the end

where you will need to make some notes.

Well, let's jump right in, and then we'll talk about all the relationship application at the end.

There are five categories of love language.

When it comes to how we share love naturally or how we perceive love from others,

each of us is a little bit different. There may be dozens of different love languages and you

may favor more than one thing on this list, but as you'll see today, you can probably rank them one through

five in terms of how you best interpret love from another. Here is the list, and then we'll go back

and diagram it. Number one, words of affirmation. Number two, acts of service. Number three, reception of gifts. Number four,

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