Turkish Title: Beş Sevgi Dili

Original Title:The Five Love Languages

Author: Gary Chapman

In this international best seller, Dr. Gary Chapman reveals how different people express and undesrstand love in different ways. Just as a foreign language can be misunderstood to us, so can someone else's expressions of love.

Do you know couples who are struggling to communicate with each other? Do you have friends whose marriage isn’t thriving as it could. Beş Sevgi Dili explores the all-important languages of love, helping each partner discover which actions are interpreted by the other one as loving and affirming, and which as indifferent and demeaning. As people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce.  

In Five Love Languages, Dr. Gary Chapman reveals how different people express love in different ways. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love; Quality Time - Words of Affirmation - Gifts - Acts of Service - Physical Touch, and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their own unique languages of love. Husband’s and wives can learn to express and understand one another’s love language, and easily become effective in showing love and truly feel loved in return. This wonderfully practical book provides skillful communication within marriage which leads to a deeper and longer lasting bond between a husband and wife.

Since 1979, Gary Chapman has written more than 15 books. His book, The Five Love Langauges (Northfield Publishing, 1992, 1993), has sold 3 million copies in English alone and has been translated into 34 languages including Arabic and Hindi. He has also appeared on several television and radio programs and has his own daily radio program called “A Growing Marriage” that can be heard on more than 100 radio stations across the United States.

In addition to his busy writing and seminar schedule, Gary Chapman is a senior associate pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he has served for 35 years. Gary and his wife, Karolyn, have been married for 45 years, have two adult children, and two grandchildren.

Gary Chapman is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from Wheaton College and Wake Forest University, respectively. He received M.R.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has completed postgraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Duke University.

Gary's book applying the five love languages to parenting, The Five Love Languages of Children, has also been published by Sistem Yayıncılık in Turkish under the title Çocuklar İçin Beş Sevgi Dili.