Your Love Language

Part of my year last year and this year and something that I have been paying attention to especially within my personal and family life is a love language. If you have not heard of this, it is a powerful and amazing tool that sheds light on how you may give and receive love. I can only talk about my own experiences with this. So first let me give you some background.

The 5 Love Languages developed by Gary Chapman has been around since about the '90s. There are five types of love languages and each language has a description of it. The five love languages include Gifts, Words of Affirmation, Physical Touch, Quality Time, and Acts of Service. Each of these love languages gives you a snapshot of how you express your love towards others. As I began to really dive into these love languages I began to understand my own love language and it made sense to me. My personal love language (my top 2) is Acts of Service and Gifts. I love doing things for people without them asking me and when it comes to the holidays I love giving gifts and getting that reaction that shows me that
people know that I put thought into that gift. There was a time though that because I am a giver and because I like doing things for people that I felt dry in the sense that I was not getting reciprocated the same intensity of love that I was giving out. And it wasn't until I researched about love languages and I heard the comparison of people giving as much love as they can hold, that I truly began to understand that we all express our love in different ways. Where I may see that doing things for others (acts of service) shows I care, someone else may see that giving me a hug (physical touch) shows that they care.

I encourage everyone to look up the Love Language Quiz and even take it! (It's online!) Answer honestly and see what your love language is.. I believe it really helped me understand myself but also put into perspective others as well.

Let me know in the comments if you take the quiz and what your love language is if you want to share. Does it make sense or do you even believe in love languages?

Until Next Time -X.O.