The Secret Origin Story Of The 5 Love Languages
How Gary Chapman’s Nearly-Failed Marriage Gave Us The Most Popular Relationship Book Of All Time
3 min readJan 4, 2022
To hear Dr. Chapman tell this story in his own words, watch this video:
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The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman is the most popular relationship book of all time having sold over 20 million copies.
It’s become common knowledge that the way you communicate love to your partner isn’t always the way they prefer to receive it.
But what most people don’t know is that Dr. Chapman developed the Love Languages out of necessity. The honeymoon phase wore off quickly, and just a few months after their wedding, his marriage was in trouble.
He and his wife were bickering over trivial things.
They were feeling lonely and frustrated.
Neither one was getting their needs met.
