We all love to be loved. We love being loved properly. The 5 love language helps with being loved properly. Knowing your love language and communicating that effectively with others gives someone an outline and blueprint to loving you.
The 5 Love Languages are as follows:
1. Words of Affirmation
2. Acts of Services
3. Gifts
4. Quality Time Spent
5. Physical Touch.
When someone speaks your love language it’s like fuel to your soul. We all love to be loved.
What can be challenging at times is when we have to make sure we are properly loving others. It can become challenging when the responsibility falls on us to meet the requirements of others love language.
When loving others, you have to be intentional and sometimes even creative. If someone’s love language is gifts, you’ll probably have to get creative and not get them the same gift over and over. If their love language is acts of service, you’ll have to be intentional with serving them in a way that reflects there language. The goal is to serve this language where the action signifies love and gratitude.
Tailoring your love to meet the need of others can feel like a lonely solitary act of responsibility because the burden of effort falls on you. This is not said to discourage you from loving to your fullest. This is to make you aware that loving the ones who mean the most to you is a responsibility and, at times, it will feel as such.
The balance to all of this is to make sure you speak up on how you want to be loved as well. Hopefully their is a confluence, a stream of love from you, and those that love you. That way as you pour out love, love is poured back into you.
Yes loving someone can fall square on your shoulders and feel lonely at times. But you’re never alone, we are one reach away.
Comment below if you can relate to this message.
Written by: Q. Edmonds
M.O.T.M.V. StoryTeller
