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Teacher: John Harrell

Date: July 4, 2010 (12 weeks)

It will cost $15 per couple for one book. This can be purchased through the church or you may buy it at any bookstore.

The book talks about falling in love. It talks about the love tank. It is each person’s desire to receive and expend love. For each one that we care for, we either fill their love tank or we don’t. Each one of us has something inside that asks for recognition and we have a love tank that likes to get filled up.

In this series of classes you will:

  1. Identifying what love languages the people in your life prefer. When we are done, you should be able to identify and communicate effectively in their primary and secondary love language. We must take time to understand how others are perceiving our love for them. Maybe you are not connecting with a loved one because they don’t communicate the same way you do. Learning another's love language brings a deeper level of communication and understanding with it.
  2. Understand the differences between love and an emotion. Because of his great love for us, Jesus chose to lay his life down willingly. We do the same when we choose to love someone else. We show it even when, at times, it may seem unnatural or forced. It is different than love as an emotion. Love as an emotion is what people feel when they first fall in love.

The in-love feeling wears off. Studies show that after about ten years of a relationship, often there’s a crisis. The people then find that they just exist together. After the honeymoon, and until things change, you have two people cohabiting.

We need to be aware that relationships will change. People change. We may have been married or had children for many years. Whatever worked twenty five years ago will not necessarily work now. We must accept it and be willing to adjust. The adjustment must fit. You must understand that teenagers change. They may have been loving and cooperative when they were younger. When they become about age twelve, they become different creatures. You must love them through that. Sometimes you don’t know what to do during that time. You must keep that communication open and it will help you through it. You must accept that they have to grow. Learning the Love Language of your child will help you to do just that.