Week 9: Chapter 8 — Love Languages and Your Family

1.Chapman points out that many single adults are still navigating complex, ongoing relationships with parents and siblings — and that these relationships are often the original classroom where our love language was formed (or frustrated). How would you describe the emotional 'love language culture' of the family you grew up in?

2.He suggests that adult children who feel emotionally disconnected from a parent may be experiencing a love language mismatch that has persisted for years undiagnosed. Can you identify a love language mismatch in one of your family relationships — a gap between how love is being offered and how it needs to be received?

3.Chapman addresses the situation of single adults who return home to visit family and feel either deeply loved or strangely empty depending on whether their love language is spoken. What does visiting your family of origin feel like for you emotionally? What fills your tank there, and what drains it?