A 5 Week challenge that helps you to show love to your spouse by completing a weekly challenge. Each challenge will be tailored to your spouse's love language and each week you will be reminded to complete your challenge.
Husbands and wives are encouraged to take this first annual challenge.
The Love Language Challenge is a great way to jump start your heart and marriage by showing love to your spouse in their specific love language. When you speak your spouse's love language it fills their love tank and will make them feel loved.
Have an email address? Be sure to sign up at www.lovelanguagechallenge.com to receive the weekly challenges in your inbox. For 5 weeks you will receive your weekly challenge through email as well as conversation starters from the Love Language Team.
Have an iPhone? Visit the Apple store and download the FREE Love Language Challenge App. For 5 weeks you will receive your weekly challenge through push notifications. Throughout the week you will also receive conversation starters from the Love Language Team.
Have an Android Phone? Visit the Android Market and download the FREE Love Language Challenge App. For 5 weeks you will receive your weekly challenge through push notifications. Throughout the week you will also receive conversation starters from the Love Language Team.
There are several easy ways to find out the Love Language of your spouse.
If you are using the iPhone or Android app you can input your spouse's email address to have the assessment sent directly to them. Once they complete the assessment their love language will be sent back to you via email.
If you are not using an app, simply have your spouse visit http://www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/love/ to take the assessment and ask them to share the results.
Finally, if your spouse can not or is not able to take the assessment consider answering the following questions about your spouse:
• How does he/she most often express love to others?
• What does he/she complain about most often?
• What does he/she request most often?
Though our spouse's complaints normally irritate us, they are actually giving us valuable information. If a spouse says, "We don't ever spend any time together," you may be tempted to say, "What do you mean? We went out to dinner Thursday night." Such a defensive statement will end the conversation. However, if you respond, "What would you like for us to do?" you will likely get an answer. The complaints of your spouse are the most powerful indicators of the primary love language.
Dr. Gary Chapman seeks to fulfill his call to the ministry as a pastor, speaker, and author. He speaks extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally on marriage, family, and relationships. The government of Singapore invited him to present his marriage seminar there and the Chaplain's Office of NATO issued a special invitation for Dr. Chapman to speak to the NATO forces in Germany. Other engagements have taken him to England, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Mexico and Hong Kong. Sales exceeding 5 million copies earned him the Platinum Book Award from the Evangelical Publishers Association for The 5 Love Languages, which has been translated into over thirty-six languages. Twenty-seven other books and five video series are also among his publications.
On the home front, Dr. Chapman is Senior Associate Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He and his wife, Karolyn, have two adult children and two grandchildren.
The 5 Love Languages® by Dr. Gary Chapman has helped countless couples identify practical and powerful ways to express love, simply by using the appropriate love language. Many husbands and wives who had spent years struggling through marriages they thought were loveless discovered one or both spouses had long been showing love through messages that weren't getting through. By recognizing their different love languages, they witnessed the rebirth of the love they thought had been gone for good.
Actions don't always speak louder than words. If this is your love language, unsolicited compliments mean the world to you. Hearing the words, "I love you," are important—hearing the reasons behind that love sends your spirits skyward. Insults can leave you shattered and are not easily forgotten.
In the vernacular of Quality Time, nothing says, "I love you," like full, undivided attention. Being there for this type of person is critical, but really being there—with the TV off, fork and knife down, and all chores and tasks on standby—makes your significant other feel.
Don't mistake this love language for materialism; the receiver of gifts thrives on the love, thoughtfulness, and effort behind the gift. If you speak this language, the perfect gift or gesture shows that you are known, you are cared for, and you are prized above whatever was sacrificed to bring the gift to you. A missed birthday, anniversary, or a hasty, thoughtless gift would be disastrous—so would the absence of everyday gestures.
Can vacuuming the floors really be an expression of love? Absolutely! Anything you do to ease the burden of responsibilities weighing on an "Acts of Service" person will speak volumes. The words he or she most want to hear: "Let me do that for you." Laziness, broken commitments, and making more work for them tell speakers of this language their feelings don't matter.
This language isn't all about the bedroom. A person whose primary language is Physical Touch is, not surprisingly, very touchy. Hugs, pats on the back, holding hands, and thoughtful touches on the arm, shoulder, or face—they can all be ways to show excitement, concern, care, and love. Physical presence and accessibility are crucial, while neglect or abuse can be unforgivable and destructive.
Give your marriage the gift of TRUE LOVE by committing to The Love Language Challenge. For 5 weeks you will love your spouse according to THEIR love language. If this sounds difficult, don't worry—WE WILL HELP YOU!
Have your spouse take the quiz now, then sign up to receive weekly challenges with ideas that are a perfect fit for him or her and watch your relationship become a love story.
