This literature review looks at the question: is
there a relationship between love languages and marital happiness? Love
languages are a very popular cultural theme, and many people depend on love languages
for the satisfaction of love between partners. Although there has been an
emphasis on love languages, in recent cultures, there have also been very high
divorce rates, therefore the question if love languages prove to produce love
remains prominent. Fifteen articles that I have found take this question and
extract themes regarding this question that fall under the subject of the
description of love languages, the validity of love languages, and satisfaction
and love languages. This literature review looks at each of the five most
popular love languages and assesses what they are, how often they occur within
relationships, and if they produce satisfaction within couples. It has been
found that most love languages individually do produce marital satisfaction. In
the later part of this literature review, I assess the validity of love
languages and their satisfaction as a whole, I have found that the love
languages themselves do not prove to be valid with empirical research, and it
was also found that there are many other ways of showing love that are not one
of the five love languages. Therefore, these findings prove that love languages
do not fully lead to marital happiness, instead, simply showing affection leads
to marital happiness, which could include showing love languages. This
information was found by looking at studies that would measure satisfaction
between married couples and related it to love languages.
