Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you ideas and tips for how to live

a happier life.

This very special episode is dedicated to Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages.

I'm Gretchen Reuben, a writer whose study is happiness, good habits as in the nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft who never fear, as soon

reveal her love language.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen, I bet all of

our listeners can guess your love language.

I definitely wear it on my sleeve, yes.

I think if you describe yourself as a Gold Star junkie, people kind of get the point.

So this week is episode 80 and as is our custom, every 10th episode is a very special episode

where we shake things up in some way.

And for a very special episode, we're tackling the Five Love Languages and for people who

don't know, the Five Love Languages is this enormously successful book by Gary Chapman.

It has spent more than 164 weeks, which is more than three years if you can't do math

in your head.

On the New York Times advice list, it sold millions of copies.

It's also extremely short and a pleasure to read.

And so Gary Chapman is a marriage counselor.

He's been a marriage counselor for more than 30 years and this is a framework that he built

out of his experience working with couples for so long.

And it's absolutely true that the book reflects his Christian background, but you do not need

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