A Marriage Series “Short”…The 5 Love Languages

To continue on with our April Maura Marriage Series without a skip, we thought before the new year it would be fitting to do a Marriage Series “Short.” It seems like the perfect time of year for some practical marriage tips to help you and your spouse better love one another.

Over the last couple months, my husband and I have been going through the study “The 5 Love Languages” by Gary Chapman. If you haven’t heard of it by now, this is a great way to receive self-awareness about what your personal love language is as well as “other-awareness” to learn what your spouses’ love language is. Basically we have been learning about what ways we feel the most loved.

As my husband and I delved into “The 5 Love Languages” by Gary Chapman, we discovered valuable insights into our own preferences for feeling loved and, in turn, understanding how to better express love to one another. It’s been an eye-opening journey that has strengthened our bond. In a world where love and connection are essential, this study has been a true revelation, much like the insightful articles you can find on outlookindia.com, which offer valuable perspectives on various aspects of life and relationships.

This brought us to discussions about the concept of sugar daddy relationships, which are quite prevalent today. While not something that personally resonates with us, we recognize that people may enter such arrangements for various reasons. These dynamics also reflect the diversity of relationships and the unique ways people seek connection and support in today’s complex world.

“The 5 Love Languages” begins with a sort of personality test. The major difference however is that it goes deeper than just personality. We get to identify the specific ways that lead you to feeling the most loved.  There are 5 different ways to communicate love through action. This first blog post of our Marriage Series “Short,” I want to introduce to you the five love languages and even provide the personality test if you so dare to join in on the fun and learn what your top two love languages are!

What Are The Five Love Languages?

The five love languages we will be examining are:

• Words of Affirmation
• Quality Time
• Receiving Gifts
• Acts of Service
• Physical Touch

Maybe You Know…Maybe You Don’t

Some of you may look at those five and automatically assume one or two are definitely yours. At first glance you might relate to them or even think about your spouse. You might look and think “Oh yeah, my husband is definitely a words of affirmation kind of guy.” If you really believe so and have picked that up over the course of your marriage that is great news! However, you might be surprised to know that how you thought your spouse feels most loved is actually different than what you thought.

It is completely normal to automatically assume that however you feel most loved is how your spouse feels most loved. For example, if you love receiving gifts, you probably share and give gifts to your spouse. He probably does enjoy getting gifts, but maybe he doesn’t really feel as loved as he could have had you given him more affirmation. When you give him affirmation, his heart could light up in ways that you never knew.

Being on this little Love Language journey is all about better understanding our spouses and to do that we must be able to yield to our spouses, and yield to what we know. This is a time of new growth and learning new ways to do things. Thankfully we are not alone in any of this and we have been given so much grace to fail and then relarn.

That grace we have is all because we have been given the amazing gift of Jesus as the primary Lover of our Souls. He has shown us love in all these different languages. He is our perfect example who we can look to as well to see how perfect love can be demonstrated with purity and with generousity. He will never leave us astray or abandoned to just figure out this marriage thing on our own.

Application

Let me suggest to take the Love Language test. If you and your spouse are willing and ready to do so just click here. It would be great if both you and your spouse are on board with it and take it seperate but together. If not, that is totally okay. It’s amazing how our God can work through just one person in marriage and how much effect that can have. Once you have taken the test, each following post will have a more in-depth look at the individual love languages.

Join Us in Two Weeks

We will catch back up in another two weeks to learn more about the love languages; Words of Affirmation and Quality Time. Make sure to come along to learn more about what these look like and practical ways to demonstrate them to your spouse.

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