|
e97ce81
|
Positive Eye Contact Quality time should include loving eye contact. Looking in your child's eyes with care is a powerful way to convey love from your heart to the heart of your child. Studies have shown that most parents use eye contact in primarily negative ways, either while reprimanding a child or giving very explicit instructions. If you give loving looks only when your child is pleasing you, you are falling into the trap of conditiona..
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
32623b7
|
The desire for reconciliation is often more potent than the desire for justice. The more intimate the relationship, the deeper the desire for reconciliation.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
0bf7628
|
As the instinctual nature of the bird dictates the building of a nest, so the instinctual nature of the in-love experience pushes us to do outlandish and unnatural things for each other.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
35c6864
|
We are talking about love, and love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. Most of us do things each day that do not come "naturally" for us. For some of us, that is getting out of bed in the morning. We go against our feelings and get out of bed. Why? Because we believe there is something worthwhile to do that day. And normally, before the day is over, we feel good about having gotten up. Our actions prece..
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
9c5c8a0
|
Almost never do two people fall in love on the same day, and almost never do they fall out of love on the same day.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
84a2cba
|
That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
59abac4
|
God loves you--as a person and as a unique individual. -- Susan Campbell --
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
170beea
|
The key to quality time is found in the values and priorities you as parents determine to cherish and implement in your home.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
85e127a
|
He dreams of buying a new car, but she flatly says, "We can't afford it."
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
bda8818
|
Inside every child is an 'emotional tank' waiting to be filled with love.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
880c1a2
|
Write a love letter, a love paragraph, or a love sentence to your spouse, and give it quietly or with fanfare! You may someday find your love letter tucked away in some special place. Words are important! 6. Compliment your spouse in the presence of his parents or friends. You will get double credit: Your spouse will feel loved and the parents will feel lucky to have such a great son-in-law or daughter-in-law.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
d586fed
|
your child, like a flower, will benefit from your love. When the water of love is given, your child will bloom and bless the world with beauty. Without that love, she will become a wilted flower, begging for water.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
95d298c
|
We needed love before we "fell in love," and we will need it as long as we live."
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
5b503dd
|
The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
15ea258
|
One way to express love emotionally is to use words that build up. Solomon, author of the ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, "The tongue has the power of life and death."2 Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other. Solomon further noted, "An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up."
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
34a3896
|
Your emotional love language and the language of your spouse may be as different as Chinese from English.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
4784c1e
|
No matter how hard you try to express love in English, if your spouse understands only Chinese, you will never understand how to love each other.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
f61116b
|
True Christianity does more than feel empathy for those in need. True Christianity meets that need. -- James Stuart Bell --
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
44252dc
|
love hugging and kissing my wife after we've been apart for a while.
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
24847f7
|
Sometimes loving means giving. -- Carol Russell
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |
|
07600d8
|
Sometimes loving means giving. -- Carol Russell --
|
|
|
Gary Chapman |