What I Learned After 60 Years of Marriage: Dr. Gary Chapman

Rhythms for Life

Rebekah Lyons and Gabe Lyons

Connect, Rest, Create, Health & Fitness, Rhythms, Anxiety, Mental Health, Life, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Restore

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We’ve all been in those seasons where marriage feels a little more like a foreign language than a dance. Maybe you feel like you’re the only one putting in the effort, or perhaps you’ve discovered your spouse’s love language, but your efforts still seem to be missing the mark. Today, Gabe and Rebekah sit down with a true legend, Dr. Gary Chapman. You know him as the author of The 5 Love Languages, but in this interview he takes a step deeper into his newest project, The Love Language That Matters Most. He shares how understanding the unique dialects of love can be the key to finally making your partner feel truly seen and known.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life podcast where each week we talk about resilient rhythms
0:04.7	that help you take charge of your mental, spiritual, physical, and relational health.
0:09.1	This season's conversations come from our best-selling book, The Fight for Us,
0:13.4	overcome what divides to build a marriage that thrives.
0:16.5	So grab your copy, invite your friends, and let's build healthy relationships together.
0:28.5	Welcome back. I'm Rebecca.
0:29.7	And I'm Gabe.
0:30.5	Welcome back to Week 2.
0:31.8	I know. What a great time. It is to be in March.
0:34.6	I know. We've all been waiting for this.
0:36.8	I know.
0:37.3	We're acting like it's like the dead of summer, but it might as well be. We are just so happy that we are through February and January. Those first two months of the year. I don't know. I think the Northerners thinks we're such like weak sauce. I mean, everybody loves the spring, though, but I think, I don't know. It's something about the gray, a cold, the wet.
0:56.7	I mean, I've liked probably more this winter than any winter. I liked having nighttime come early
1:02.6	that forced time together as a family, going to bed earlier. And it's your break. I mean,
1:08.2	when we get into spring with gardens, chickens,
1:11.3	responsibilities, the grass starts growing, the trees, the weeds, it's a lot of work.
1:17.0	So we have a couple fun things we'll do in the evening. So we got a scrabble board that
1:22.3	rotates like a lazy Susan. I don't know if that's exciting when you're 50, but so we play, we play this one
1:29.5	game that lasted forever. And I'll tell you who won. It was me. Of course. Because I don't have a lot.
1:37.0	I cannot compete with Gabe competitively if it's like athletics, but if it's about putting words
1:42.8	together. Yeah, strategy and words.
1:44.8	Strategy and words, I can kind of hold my own. And then the best part about Scrabble, I'm just going to give you insider tip. If you can just keep adding the S's to words, I mean, it's just like you just, you didn't have to do anything. Yeah. And you get like triple points sometimes. So pull out that Scrabble, another analog skill. I know. I know. The other thing that we have legit loved with our kids is mahjong.
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