Fifty years ago, Gary Chapman wrote The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. A marriage counsellor with a doctorate in adult education, the book is based on his observations about a key part of what makes a couple work – or not… “Your emotional love language and the language of your spouse may be as different as Chinese from English. No matter how hard you try to express love in English, if your spouse understands only Chinese, you will never understand how to love each other,” he has said. He says there are 5 ‘love languages’: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. And despite the enthusiasm, he now says he doesn’t think anyone has discovered a 6th. “I’ve seen some of those – you know, ‘The sixth love language is tacos’ … Well, if they bought it, it’s a gift. If they made it, it’s an act of service. I’m not dogmatic, but I think most of the ways of expressing love fit into one of these 5.” Sure, but hot chips are definitely our love language…