ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SPECIAL THANKS for this version go to Kari Trent Stageberg and Greg Smalley for introducing this concept to today’s communicators. They represent the rest of the Trent and Smalley families from when we were writing this book the first time to now, along with Laura Trent Morris, Michael Smalley, and Kari Smalley Gibson. We could not have been more blessed in the children God placed in our lives. Thanks go to Rebekah Byrd, executive assistant for the Gary Chapman Chair at Moody, for her always-helpful insights and updates. And to Steve Lyon for rejoining the band for this version of Language of Love. Thanks to Steve and Barbara Uhlmann, who supported my (John’s) dream to join Gary Smalley in ministry years ago —and who still support my work today at StrongFamilies.com. And to Larry Weeden, senior editor at Focus on the Family. Larry is both an outstanding editor and a “friend of friends” to Gary and me. Finally, to repeat an acknowledgment from the very first edition, thanks are due again to Jim, Pam, Heather, and Ryan McGuire for their decades of friendship and encouragement —and for “yet another Apple” of great price.