1. How many of you are under appreciated? “Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation!” David Brandt Berg

2. The 5 Love LanguagesHow to fill your “love tank” as well as others’. Presented by: Shannon Phillips With the help of: Gary Chapman, Ph.D.

3. The 5 Love Languages • Words of Affirmation • Quality Time • Receiving Gifts • Acts of Service • Physical Touch

4. Encouraging Words Kind Words Humble Words Words of Affirmation “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain

5. Togetherness Quality Conversation Quality Activities Quality Time “One of the by-products of quality activities is that they provide a memory bank from which to draw in the years ahead.” Gary Chapman, Ph.D.

6. Receiving Gifts “ . . . one of the easiest love languages to learn.” Gary Chapman, Ph.D. • Gifts and Money • gifts need not be expensive • The Gift of Self • Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your [spouse’s] primary love language is receiving gifts

7. Acts of Service • “Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.” • Require thought, planning, time, effort, and energy. • “Serve one another in love.” • Simple? YES! • Easy? NO.

8. Physical Touch “Physical touch can make or brake a relationship. It can communicate hate or love.” Gary Chapman, Ph.D. • Infant research and physical contact • Body sensitivity • The Body Is for Touching • Crisis and Physical Touch

9. What is your Primary Love Language? • Think about it • What have you requested most of your partner? • In what way do you regularly express love to your partner?

10. What are you doing for others?What can you do for others? • Teach • Carry out • Fill your • “Love Tank” • AND others’! • IT’S UP TO YOU!