Wednesday, April 23, 2008

What is your love language??

Do you know what is a love language?
We humans actually expresses our love through 5 types of love language and they are:
-Words of affirmation: Verbal compliments, words of appreciation and encouragement are powerful communicators of love...
-Quality time:Spending quality time together communicates that we truly care for and enjoy each other.
-Receiving gifts:Gifts demonstrate that you care, and they reinforce the value of the relationship
-Acts of service:Express your love by showing it! Giving a helping hand is a great way to show you care.
-Physical touch:A hug, a tap on the shoulder is a great form of showing care and love.
How do we know what is one's love language? Easy peazy.. just observe what the person does to show his or her affection and care to the ones they love and care about.. then you will know their love language and from there you will know how they would react best to your expression of care and love..
If a person's love language is words of affirmation and not receiving gifts, they may not appreciate much on the gifts you give them, rather they love to hear sweet encouragements from you :)- they would like the gift but not as much as receiving praise or compliments..
Many relationships and friendships were misunderstood because of unmet expectation on receiving the love they were looking for.. for example, a father always buys things to his children to show that he cares and put efforts in getting those gifts but working hard and making a living. But his children's love language could be quality time or words of affirmation and because of this father's love was not received well and children's expectation was not met.. resulting to misunderstanding that "They dun like my gifts thus they dun appreciate or love me" and "He don't understand me at all. Am I not good enough?" etc..
Understand each other's love language will improve your relationship with each other but most of all appreaciate each other for having showed care in any way they could.

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