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“The supervisor replied, ‘If you are gone all day, you
may well lose your job.’
“My wife said, ‘My husband is more important than my
job.’ She spent the day with me. Somehow that day, I felt
more loved by her than ever before. I have never forgotten
what she did. Incidentally,” he said, “she didn’t lose her job.
Her supervisor soon left, and she was asked to take his
job.” That wife had spoken the love language of her
husband, and he never forgot it.

Almost everything ever written on the subject of love
indicates that at the heart of love is the spirit of giving. All
five love languages challenge us to give to our spouse, but
for some, receiving gifts, visible symbols of love, speaks
the loudest. I heard the most graphic illustration of that truth
in Chicago, where I met Jim and Janice.
They attended my marriage seminar and agreed to
take me to O’Hare Airport after the seminar on Saturday
afternoon. We had two or three hours before my flight, and
they asked if I would like to stop at a restaurant. I was
famished, so I readily agreed. That afternoon, however, I
got much more than a free meal.
Jim and Janice both grew up on farms in central Illinois
not more than a hundred miles from each other. They
moved to Chicago shortly after their wedding. I was hearing
their story fifteen years and three children later. Janice