Works by
Dr. Gary Chapman
(Writer)

Audio

• The Light Inside (1994)

• A Growing Marriage Conference with Dr. Gary Chapman LIVE! (2004)
  Dr. Gary Chapman has impacted thousands of marriages across the country through his Toward a Growing Marriage Conference. This life changing event is now available on DVD. This is a live presentation of Dr. Chapman's conference taped in November 2004. It contains 5 sessions on 3 dvds. The sessions are:

  • Communication 101 Understanding and Expressing Love (The Five Love Languages)

  • Initiating Positive Change

  • Making Sex a Mutual Joy

  • How To Share the Things That Bug You

• The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate -- Men's Edition (2005)

• Everybody Wins (2007)

• Falling for You Again (2007) by Catherine Palmer and Gary Chapman

Fiction

• It Happens Every Spring (2007) by Catherine Palmer and Gary Chapman

• Summer Breeze (2007) by Catherine Palmer and Gary Chapman

Non-fiction

• Toward A Growing Marriage (1979)
  Marital Bliss?'My wife is a nag!' 'My husband thinks I'm his slave!'We just don't love each other anymore.'Common phrases in an all too common world of marital failure. We hear them everyday from our co-workers, our friends, and even ourselves. The separation and divorce rate among Christian couples continues to rise while thousands of other Christian couples continue to live together in something far less than the 'abundant life' that Jesus promised. Is your marriage turning out differently than you expected? Are all of today's alarming statistics making you wary of ever getting married? Well you are not alone. In Toward a Growing Marriage, Dr. Chapman offers the hope you've been looking for. The author of the best-selling book The Five Love Languages, will help you get your marriage off to a good start or back on the right track with advice that is both biblical and practical. Part of the problem, according to Dr. Chapman, is that too many times our churches have focused on the negative biblical directives when teaching about marriage. We need to know more than to not marry a non-believer and to save sex for marriage. We need to know how to succeed. Toward a Growing Marriage is divided into two sections in order to help two different audiences succeed: those who are in the process of finding a spouse who will be a 'fitting' or 'suitable' marriage partner those who have already said 'I do' and are trying to fulfill that commitmentMarital happiness is not automatic, but the practical application of Dr. Chapman's helpful information will put couples well on their way to successful and fulfilling marriages.

• Now That You Are Single Again (1985)

• Building Relationships: A Discipleship Guide for Married Couples (1995)

• The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate (1995)
  Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? While love is a many splendored thing, it is sometimes a very confusing thing, too. And as people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce. Quality Time Words of Affirmation Gifts Acts of Service Physical TouchDr. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!

• Hope For the Separated: Wounded Marriages Can Be Healed (1996)
  You may not feel like reconciling. You may not see hope for a reunion. But the biblical ideal for a separated couple is reconciliation. So how do you do it? When doors slam and angry words fly, when things just aren’t working out, and even when your spouse is interested in someone else, there is hope. The Word of God is active and powerful. It offers the salve needed to heal lives, and that salve can heal marriages, too. Hope for the Separated will show you that by following the proven advice of God’s Word you can achieve reconciliation with your mate. You can restore your marriage. Dr. Chapman deals with poignant issues such as: emotions, attitudes, and actions choosing to obey ways to improve communication learning to love loneliness the danger of retaliation dating while separated how to relate to your children during this time

• Five Signs of a Functional Family (1997) by  Derek Chapman and Gary Chapman

• The Five Love Languages of Children (1997) by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
  Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved? Since 1992, Dr. Gary Chapman's best-selling book The Five Love Languages has helped more than 300,000 couples develop stronger, more fulfilling relationships by teaching them to speak each others love language. Each child, too, expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. And your love language may be totally different from that of your child. While you are doing all you can to show your child love, he may be hearing it as something completely opposite.Discover your child's primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior.  See also Five Love Languages of Children: Parent Activity Guide.

• Five Love Languages of Children: Parent Activity Guide (1998)

• Five Signs of a Loving Family (1998)
  We've all heard about dysfunctional families. Their struggles are the topic of TV shows, best-selling books, and popular magazines. Everyday something else that parents or children do is labeled 'dysfunctional.' Are the world's problems destined to become our own? How can we make sure we are part of the solution - not the problem? According to respected marriage counselor Gary Chapman, we can still make the dream of loving families come true. Just as bankers study authentic bills if they want to spot counterfeits, we can learn how to make our own families 'work' by studying successful ones. In Five Signs of a Loving Family, Dr. Chapman suggest that service, love, leadership, teaching and obedience are the hallmarks of lasting families. And he prescribes practical ways to help every family member nurture these traits. His words are powerful encouragement for parents and children alike. (Formerly titled Five Signs of a Functional Family.)

• Loving Solutions (1998)
  Books have been written for couples preparing for marriage, and for individuals walking the long road after a divorce. But what about people somewhere in between? What about those whose marriage isn't failing, but flawed?With the authority of a professional psychologist and the wisdom of a pastor, Dr. Chapman offers hope for troubled marriages in Loving Solutions. He presents reasonable solutions based on God's Word to couples at every level of need. Spouses struggling with controlling and uncommunicative mates will find a remedy here, as will the partners of abusive or alcoholic mates.In Loving Solutions, Dr. Chapman draws on years of experience as a marriage counselor and as a Christian. Helping readers solve problems rather than abandon their marriage, he supplies solutions that are not only practical, but permanent. Readers will learn the six principles of 'reality living,' and take first steps toward healing their marriage.

• Covenant Marriage: Communication & Intimacy Couple Guide (1999)

• Parenting Your Adult Child: How You Can Help Them Achieve Their Full Potential (1999) by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
  Parenting doesn't end at 18.Has your nest not emptied? Has your adult child made lifestyle choices you don't agree with? Has becoming an in-law made you consider becoming an outlaw? Many parents today answer an exasperating 'yes' to these and many other questions that describe the frustration encountered between them and their adult children. Parenting no longer ends at 18, yet very few resources are available to help parents better communicate with their child who is no longer a child.Ross Campbell and Gary Chapman, authors of The Five Love Languages of Children, have teamed up again to bring us another tool for parenting. They will help you deal with such issues as: - Helping Your Child Find Success - Dealing with the Anger - When Adult Children Return with their Children - Religious Choices - Positive Parental LoveYou can survive this stage in your life. And with the excellent advice from Drs. Campbell and Chapman you can even enjoy it.

• The Other Side of Love: Handling Anger in a Godly Way (1999)
  Anger is a universal human experience. For many of us, it is the single greatest challenge in every area of our lives. We have been taught that anger itself is a sin and should be avoided at all costs. However, anger is also understood to be 'nature's way' of preparing man to respond in times of danger. How then do we go about bringing this volatile emotion under the Lordship of Jesus Christ? Gary Chapman gives us the perfect tool to answer this and many other questions in The Other Side of Love. In this book, he takes a fresh look at the origin and purpose of anger. Asserting that anger is rooted in the holy nature of God, he reverently explains that anger flows from God's holiness and love. Gary Chapman draws on his extensive counseling experience to instruct us how to positively process our anger. This will help us to create and further cultivate healthy relationships. Helpful study questions for group or personal use conclude each chapter. Don't let anger get the best of you. Victory begins with understanding. Now is the time to make this critical investment in your walk with Christ.

• The Five Love Languages of Teenagers (2000)
  At no other time in American history have parents, teachers, and mentors been more desperate to find proven ways to reach teens. In response, best-selling author Gary Chapman presents The Five Love Languages of Teenagers. It contains practical guidance on how to discover and express the teen's primary love language- the way that he or she will best receive love. It is tangible resource for stemming the tide of violence, immorality, and despair engulfing many teens today.  See also The Five Love Languages of Teenagers: Parent Study Guide

• Your Gift of Love: Selections from the Five Love Languages (2000)
  To truly love our mates, we must first know what they want and how they best receive love-in other words, we must discover their "love language." Your Gift of Love is beautifully designed gift book with key passages from Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages - carefully chosen to bless readers with a rich, enduring marriage.

• The World's Easiest Guide to Family Relationships (2001) by Gary Chapman and Randy Southern
  Family relationships are the most complicated most important relationships in a person's life. Gary Chapman, the best-selling author of The Five Love Languages, offers this handy, yet comprehensive guide to creating and maintaining healthy relationships with your spouse and children. After explaining the basics of communicating and receiving love via the five love languages, Chapman collects treasured insights from his other best-selling books -- Loving Solutions, Five Signs of a Loving Family, The Other Side of Love, Hope for the Separated, Parenting Your Adult Child, and Toward a Growing Marriage.

• Love Talks for Couples (2002) by Gary Chapman and Ramon Presson
  Your spouse is a unique person, filled with amazing insights, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Communication is key to really knowing and fully loving that person. Best selling author and marriage counselor Gary Chapman has developed this handy tabletop resource to get you and your spouse talking. With 101 probing questions, couples will find their relationship enhanced, their intimacy deepened, and their romance ignited. Love Talks for Couples is the perfect companion to the best-selling book, The Five Love Languages.

• Love Talks for Families (2002) by Gary Chapman and Ramon Presson
  One of the signs of a healthy family is open and meaningful conversation. But it's not always easy to get your kids talking. Love Talks for Families is an excellent conversation starter, providing just the right blend of fun, biblical, and probing questions. Authors Gary Chapman and Ramon Presson have created this treasure trove in a handy tabletop format. Whether you do one question a week or five days a week, your family will experience a new level of closeness. Love Talks for Families is the perfect companion to best-selling books, The Five Love Languages of Children and The Five Love Languages of Teenagers.

• More Love Talks for Couples (2002) by Gary Chapman and Ramon Presson
  Your spouse is a unique person, filled with amazing insights, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Communication is key to really knowing and fully loving that person. Best selling author and marriage counselor Gary Chapman has developed this handy tabletop resource to get you and your spouse talking. With 101 probing questions, couples will find their relationship enhanced, their intimacy deepened, and their romance ignited. More Love Talks for Couples is the perfect companion to the best-selling book, The Five Love Languages. It also makes an excellent Valentines Day, wedding, and anniversary gift. It helps you and your spouse get the conversation flowing.

• The Love Languages of God: How to Feel and Reflect Divine Love (2002)
  The best-selling author of The Five Love Languages series has written a book EVERYONE should read! Once you discover your primary love language in human relationships, you can assume that will be your primary love language in your relationship with God. Whether we are speaking to God or He is speaking to us - we are feeling God's love and presence most strongly in one particular way. By teaching readers to tap into that divine love, Dr. Chapman helps them relate to God in a way that will totally revolutionize their will to love one another.

• Covenant Marriage: Building Communication & Intimacy  (2003)
  The Covenant Marriage program encourages Christians to exercise the promises and expectations of God’s covenant love in marriage. Practicing Covenant Marriage means couples must offer each other steadfast loyalty, forgiveness, empathy, and commitment to resolving conflict so as to encourage each other in spiritual growth.
  
  In this new book, Dr. Chapman shows how communication and intimacy are two of the most important aspects in developing a successful Covenant Marriage. At the heart of it all are the principles that lasting answers to marital growth are found in the Bible, your relationship with God enhances your marriage relationship, communication is the primary vehicle by which two persons become one in the marriage relationship, and the idea of biblical oneness involves not only sex, but intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and social oneness.

• The Five Love Languages of Teenagers: Parent Study Guide (2003)

• The Five Love Languages for Singles (2004)
  Gary Chapman first penned the best-selling The Five Love Languages more than ten years ago. The core message has hit home with over 3 million people as it focuses on humanity's deepest emotional need: the need to 'feel' loved. This need is felt by married and singles alike. Dr. Chapman now tackles the unique circumstances that singles face, and integrates how the same five love languages apply in their relationships. For example, in a business environment, when and how is physical touch appropriate?

• Marriage: Growing and Protecting Your Most Cherished Relationship (2005) by Gary Chapman and Jerry Jenkins
  This valuable two-in-one collection of Gary Chapman's best-selling Toward a Growing Marriage and Jerry B. Jenkin's Loving Your Marriage Enough to Protect It enables you to take a fresh look at your marriage. Learn how to communicate, how to rekindle love, and how to avoid financial bondage. It will strengthen your marriage before it ever gets into trouble. This is a book about loving your marriage enough to protect it.

• The Four Seasons of Marriage (2005)
  Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the perennial best seller The Five Love Languages, provides an easytograsp framework to help couples understand their marriage and seven practical strategies for strengthening or improving their marriage relationship. A valuable resource for couples regardless of how long they've been married, this biblically based book is a reference tool to help couples through every season of marriage.

• The Five Love Languages Journal (2005)
  Writing helps a person remember a concept, prompt an action, or reflect on God's goodness in your life. How did you do this week on keeping your mate's love tank full? Now you can keep track of your thoughts, feelings, progress, and your mate's love tank with The Five Love Languages Journal . Each section of the journal has a corresponding chapter head that follows the classic book by Dr. Gary Chapman. Following that is a quote for reflection, several thought-provoking questions, and a relevant Scripture verse. Interspersed are areas for journalizing about personal experience with love and loved ones. Use the entries to spark communication, or to keep as a private retreat. The journal's duotone faux leather will appeal to both men and women. A satin ribbon is sewn in for place-holding. Those who have made The Five Love Languages a multi-million seller will find this brand addition a most welcome value.

• The Marriage You've Always Wanted (2005)
  After the leftover wedding cake has been consumed and the thank-you notes written, the blissful couple often uncovers some jarring realities: a trail of dirty socks on the floor, conflicting opinions on how much money is too much for a bottle of shampoo and a general wonderment at the question, 'What does it mean to merge the worlds of two very different people?'In an updated version of Toward a Growing Marriage, beloved relationship expert and marriage counselor Gary Chapman offers his trademark practical wisdom on the many issues young married couples face. His basic message: to enjoy 'the marriage you've always wanted,' we have to be the person Jesus has always wanted us to be. He looks at such areas as meaningful communication, expectations about 'who does what' around the house, and the challenges of money management. 'Your Turn' questions inspire further interaction between wives and husbands. This book makes a superb sequel to The Five Love Languages as it takes the 'next step' in making unselfish relationships a reality.

• A Couple's Guide to a Growing Marriage (2006)
  From the New York Times best-selling author and international speaker comes this interactive, practical resource designed to help couples grow closer to each other--and closer to God. Couples will discuss and reflect on such areas as money, anger, forgiveness, and spirituality, all in an easy-to-use workbook format.

• Marriage (2006) by Gary D. Chapman and Stephen W. Smith
  Life is not a flow chart. We weren't meant to master it on our own. We weren't meant to be mastered by it either. The discussion guides in the Transformation of a Man's Heart series put us in conversation with God and with one another to see how God shapes and transforms us in the ordinary experiences of our lives.Sometimes we're tempted to look at marriage like flies on a windowpane. The ones on the outside want to get in, but do the ones on the inside want to get out? This discussion guide, inspired by essays in The Transformation of a Man's Heart, demystifies marriage for men, helping us see through the euphoria that led us to marry and the disillusionment that plagues us when our marriages don't turn out as we planned.This study accompanies the companion book, The Transformation of a Man's Heart, compiled and edited by Stephen W. Smith.

• The Five Languages of Apology: How to Experience Healing in All Your Relationships (2006) by Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas
  How many ways are there to say 'I'm sorry?' Well, it depends on your language of apology. Just as you have a different love language, you also hear and express the words and gestures of apology in a different language. Best-selling author Gary Chapman has teamed with counselor Jennifer Thomas to explore the different languages of apology and reach a whole new audience with this easy to follow and quickly applicable communication tool.

• Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way (2007 release)

• Everybody Wins: The Chapman Guide to Solving Conflicts Without Arguing (2007)

• Home Improvements: The Chapman Guide to Negotiating Change With Your Spouse (2007)

• Now You're Speaking My Language: Honest Communication and Deeper Intimacy for a Stronger Marriage (2007 release)
  Now You're Speaking My Language is the anticipated paperback edition of Gary Chapman's 2004 Gold Medallion award winner, Covenant Marriage. This especially popular book from the multimillion selling author encourages husbands and wives to offer steadfast loyalty, forgiveness, empathy, and commitment to resolving conflict, thus encouraging each other in spiritual growth.