Here, what’s relevant is how considerate the gift is. But it doesn’t have to be a material gift or very expensive. Some people enjoy receiving and giving presents. What really matters is the person we’re spending time with. What you do together doesn’t really matter. Taking time out of our day for the people we love is a way of expressing what we feel for them. It means finding quality time in our busy schedule, full and rewarding time, to be with a person in both body and mind. We must realize the power we have through the love language of words of affirmation. Words have incredible power over us, and they leave their mark on our behavior even if speaking the words only takes seconds. If one of your love languages is words of affirmation, you like to encourage people with your speech. This way of expressing love includes love letters. This group includes people who need words of affection and compliments. They get happiness from hearing nice words and motivation from a well-written verse. Yet, it is still a form of physical contact that makes them feel loved and cared for. This includes fighting, wrestling, soccer, or basketball.
Older children (specially boys between the ages of 7 and 9 years old) who enjoy this type of love may express it in peculiar ways. They enjoy massages or sitting in people’s laps. Youngsters, when this is one of their predominating love languages, feel comforted by being held or carried. They feel comforted in the arms of others or by holding hands. People who prefer this language enjoy touch, hugs. Physical contact is one of the simplest love languages since it doesn’t require any words.
The 5 love languages this author describes are as follows: 1. One person might prefer expressing love with one love language, but prefer receiving it through another. He included both the way one expresses love and the way one receives it.Įach person tends to have two love languages we’re most comfortable expressing ourselves in and feeling loved by. That’s why, in 1995 Gary Chapman described the 5 love languages he believes exist.
Love, just like language, has many nuances. But here, they’re still just using an unfamiliar language. And then, sometimes we come across people who seem to not love at all. However, that doesn’t make the love any less true or real. Therefore, it’s likely that we’ve all had to deal with someone who expresses their love differently than us. We all know that there are thousands of ways to express love, love languages.
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