Book Review: The Language of Love and Respect: Cracking the Communication Code with Your Mate by Emerson Eggerichs

My Rating: 4 out of 5
In this book you will learn how to communicate with your spouse on a whole new level.

Being married is never easy, and one of the things that make it so hard is communication, or lack of communication for many. I know that Mr. B and I have some struggle in that area. That was one reason I was happy to review this book.

This book is written to help couples understand that men and woman communicate differently. Where men see and hear in blue, woman see and hear in pink. Meaning men need respect and woman need love. It’s not that either partner is wrong, it’s just that we are different so some adjusting needs to happen.

Dr. Eggerichs also gives each spouse an acronym to help understand and remember his concepts. For example for husbands it is COUPLE: Closeness, Openness, Understanding, Peacemaking, Loyalty, Esteem. By using these terms and their meanings it helps husbands to be better partners to their wives.

It has a much more spiritual approach to communication between couples. Showing us that God has a plan and a way that he wants all of us to communicate with one another through scripture.

I enjoyed reading this book, although it was hard to get started as I am not a “self help” book type of person. It does also have some repetitiveness, but I guess it helps the point stick. But I am glad I read it and hope to get Mr. B to read it soon. As I’m sure if we both were to use these techniques we would be communicating gurus.

I, of course, would love to pass this book on to a reader, as you know I’m all about giving. So if you would like to win this copy of this book just leave me a comment, any ol’ comment and I’ll pick a winner in a few days.

The featured product in this post was provided to me free of charge by Thomas Nelson Publishers. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and not influenced in any way by the company.