Basically the book explains how there are 5 different ways of feeling loved.
1. Words of Affirmation (telling you that you look great, that you did something wonderful, etc)
2. Gifts (receiving gifts)
3. Quality time (Time spent one on one with no interruptions)
4. Touch (being touched, holding hands, getting a massage from your loved one)
5. Acts of service (This is where you feel loved by the things that your spouse does. Such as mowing the yard or doing things around the house for you.)
My love language is Quality time. I long to have one-on-one with my husband without interruptions. (That's why I hate cell phones) Since he's read the book he knows what makes me feel loved. However his love language is Touch. I know that by touching him his "love tank" gets filled.
We were having a lot of problems before I read the book, enough that I was about to leave. Neither of us quite knew what was going on. I just knew that I didn't feel loved, like everything was more important that I was. When I got the book I cried through two of the chapters because they really spoke to what I was feeling. My husband isn't a reader and we were hardly communicating during that time, I ended up leaving the book next to the toilet when I was gone for the weekend. When I got home we had a discussion about the book and he read it. Things have been soooo much better! It really helped to turn our marriage around. At first he did ALL of the love languages!!! I would get a lot of little gifts from him and he spent a little extra time with me. Of course, it's not one sided, I have to do my part as well, but when we're getting along Touch is pretty easy to do.
The book has ideas on how to incorporate these in your life. It really is a very easy book to read. I'd send you mine but I can't find it, my husband probably loaned it out already. I really recommend that you get the book. Check on e-bay or on CBD.com. I suggest that you make some time and read this. It could really help your marriage. Good luck!
Here's a thread where he brought home a bunch of gifts.
http://www.4womentalk.com/forums/sho...hlight=bouquet