SIO479: Does Speaking Your Partner's "Love Language" Foster a Happier Relationship?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Gary Chapman's model of five love languages has been well-embraced by people as they navigate dating, marriage, and other relationship moments. Dr. Sharon Flicker joins the show to discuss what exactly they are, how Chapman came up with them, and her research in evaluating whether your partner's ability to "speak" your love language actually results in a happier relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to serious inquires only. This is episode 479. I'm your host Thomas Smith, |
| 0:20.7 | and I'm super excited to have a classic SIO for you. It's a really interesting study, and we're going to be speaking to one of the authors. It's about love languages. I'm sure you've heard of the five love languages by someone named Chapman, I guess. I've definitely heard of it, and I haven't heard of anything. But not only that, it's used in therapy and stuff, and so this is an idea, this love language idea, is very |
| 0:42.4 | influential. And yet, is there any scientific basis behind it? Well, Dr. Sharon Flickr, who works out |
| 0:48.5 | of my neck of the woods, Sacramento State, thought she'd maybe find out if there is any science |
| 0:53.1 | behind this. So does speaking your partner's |
| 0:55.7 | primary love language predict relationship quality at all? What do you think? Well, why don't we get on |
| 1:00.7 | over to Dr. Sharon Flickr and we'll find out? Before we do, though, of course, got to take our |
| 1:05.8 | little break at the beginning. You can avoid that break by going to patreon.com slash serious pod. Please |
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| 1:16.4 | consider supporting. And you get to lose the ads. All right, after this break, we'll get to it. I'm joined by Dr. Sharon Flicker. |
| 1:32.3 | How are you doing today? |
| 1:33.2 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:34.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:35.5 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:36.6 | It's just, I think it's nice to talk about something not related to other things. |
| 1:42.7 | Let's just have a nice. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm sorry, it's been a week. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.1 | Well, I'm excited to talk about this. |
| 1:49.2 | So love languages. |
| 1:53.5 | Do you want to talk first about your background and how you ultimately became interested in this area? |
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