How to Speak the Love Language Your Spouse Needs Most (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Marriage is about learning to love your spouse in the way they best understand love—their unique love language. Marriage experts Dr. Gary Chapman and Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott join forces to help you identify your spouse’s love language and become fluent in expressing love in meaningful, personalized ways. Together, they explore the subtle “dialects” within each love language and encourage you to be more intentional and authentic in how you love your spouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Your marriage can be healed. |
| 0:03.3 | A hope restored marriage intensive from focus on the family can transform you and your spouse's relationship in just a few days. |
| 0:12.4 | We'll go to this thing, but this is it. |
| 0:14.7 | If this doesn't work, we're done. |
| 0:16.3 | What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage. |
| 0:23.3 | Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com. |
| 0:30.8 | You know, I think if we understand this concept and we communicate love, it is true. We cannot |
| 0:36.0 | change our spouse. That's true. But we can influence our |
| 0:40.3 | spouse. And we do every single day. We either have a positive influence or we have a negative |
| 0:46.5 | influence every single day. And the most powerful influence you can have on the positive side |
| 0:51.7 | is to be communicating love to that person in their love |
| 0:55.7 | language in a dialect that's meaningful to them that's filling up their love tank. That doesn't make |
| 1:01.6 | them change, but it's a positive influence on them. They're far more likely to change if you're |
| 1:07.9 | doing that on a consistent basis. That's Dr. Gary Chapman joining us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:14.8 | And he's not alone. |
| 1:16.5 | We also have Les and Leslie Parrott in the studio with us. |
| 1:19.8 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:21.7 | John, marriage isn't about romance or routine. |
| 1:24.8 | I mean, those things are evident. |
| 1:26.4 | It's about learning to love your spouse in the way |
| 1:29.3 | they understand love. Now, the disclaimer for me is, Gene, are you listening? I hope not. |
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