Love languages and the end of love - Phil in the Blank
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On love and love languages
I read a tweet recently lambasting the five love languages and their author. (You certainly know the book.) Specifically, the tweeter wrote that I will NEVER stop talking about how "love languages" is just something made up by a misogynistic pastor, thoroughly unqualified to write a psychology self help book, so he could insist wives owed their husbands sex on demand. That’s all this trash has ever been. Like everyone else who has heard of the love languages, I haven’t actually read the book. I also have no stakes in the truth of these claims regarding their author, Gary Chapman. But I am…
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