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Gary Chapman on Decoding Your Teen’s True Desires

FamilyLife Today®

FamilyLife Network

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Raising teens can feel insane. Join Dave & Ann Wilson on FamilyLife Today as Gary Chapman offers wise tips to push through the chaos toward real connection.

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

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0:15.3

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0:23.5

So do you know the love languages of our three boys?

0:27.9

I think so.

0:28.8

Okay.

0:29.3

CJ's gifts, no doubt.

0:32.3

He is gifts.

0:33.1

He is still gifts.

0:34.3

He's always been gifts.

0:36.0

I feel like people, that's an easy one to give in terms of like, you know, they're gifts. So it's just like, oh, I'm going to get this for him. And he's... I'm gifts too. I like that. No, you're not gifts. I think Austin is time. Yep. I think he is just like time with you is well spent. And I think Cody is words of affirmation. And I think you are words of

0:54.9

affirmation. I think I'm all five.

1:00.7

Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

1:10.0

I'm Dave Wilson.

1:15.0

And I'm Ann Wilson, and you can find us at familylifetay.com.

1:16.9

This is Family Life Today.

1:27.4

You know, we've got Gary Chapman in the studio today with us. The author of The Five Love Languages. We were just talking 30-some years ago. It came out, Gary. But welcome back to Family Life today. Oh, thank you. Always good to be back with you guys. I mean, we were just talking about how that book has changed our life, our marriage, our parenting, and millions of others. And I'm not kidding. Tens of millions of others,

1:48.0

which is unbelievable that God is blessed it in such a way that it's sold a bunch in year one,

1:53.9

but it's still selling more and more each year. You know, I'm amazed at how God has used that book.

2:00.4

As you're right, right, every year

2:01.9

it sells more than the year before. It's been translated now and published in over 50 languages

2:06.7

around the world. I think it's on the human scene, it's because this is one of our deepest

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