What’s your love language?
Love languages are a useful means of understanding and communicating with your SO. It’s not only how we express our love to others, but communicating in a way that your partner can receive it. Because you don’t ever want your (or your beloved’s) love and affection to get lost in translation.
There’s 5 of them
According to “The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts” author, Dr. Gary Chapman, a pastor, there are five ways of expressing and receiving love. You may relate to more than one, but everyone has one that speaks to them the most.
If this is your love language…
Words of Affirmation
Acknowledgements, compliments, and frequent “I love you’s” are key for you. Verbal or text expressions make you feel appreciated.
Quality Time
You love sharing recreational activities and making memories together without distraction. Eye contact, active listening, and full presence are particularly important to you.
Receiving Gifts
You feel loved when people give you a visual or physical symbol of love. It’s not the gift, but the thought that counts. Gifts that are meaningful and reflect your values are key.
Acts of Service
Your partner going out of their way to help you or make life easier for you excites you, because actions speak louder than words.
Physical Touch
Consensual, physical signs of affection and intimacy are affirming and serve as a powerful connector for you. You value the warmth and comfort that come with touch.
Do any of these love languages sound familiar to you or remind you of your partner? If so, how fluent are you in your partner’s love language?
Love languages and faith
What makes love languages unique is that they are one of the few methods of extending love that is not self-serving because the giver isn’t looking for anything in return. It simply means they’re studying their partner and want them to feel loved, or helping to teach ways in which they can be loved.
However, if you’re looking for the term “love languages” in a holy text, you’re not going to find it. But in most major religions the concepts are there. In Christianity, the faith the book is primarily based on, Jesus used these languages, whether it was affirming people, such as his cousin John the Baptist; spending time with the Father; giving the gift of sight to a blind man; washing his disciples’ feet; or taking children in his arms. Not only did he use them, he demonstrated how his followers were to use them.
These values are universal across many different religions and teachings. The key is the sacrificial and unconditional love, which most faiths teach and require, that is essential to translating such a powerful emotion into transformative action.
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