The 5 Love Languages ❤

⩤⩤⩤ What are The 5 Love Languages? ⩥⩥⩥

The 5 Love Languages are five different ways of expressing and receiving love. Not everyone communicates love in the same way, and likewise, people have different ways they prefer to receive love.

The concept of love languages was developed by Gary Chapman, Ph.D., in his book The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, where he describes these five unique styles of communicating love, categories he distilled from his experience in marriage counseling and linguistics.

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• Acts of Service

  

  If your love language is acts of service, you value when your partner goes out their way to make your life easier. It's things like bringing you soup when you're sick, making you coffee for you in the morning, or picking up your dry cleaning for you when you've had a busy day at work.

• Receiving Gifts

  

  Gifts is a pretty straightforward love language: You feel loved when people give you "visual symbols of love", as Chapman calls it. It's not about the monetary value but the symbolic thought behind the item. People with this style recognize and value the gift-giving process: the careful reflection, the deliberate choosing of the object to represent the relationship, and the emotional benefits from receiving the present.

• Quality Time

  

  People whose love language is quality time feel the most adored when their partner actively wants to spend time with them and is always down to hang out. They particularly love when active listening, eye contact, and full presence are prioritized hallmarks in the relationship.

• Words of Affirmation

  

  People with words of affirmation as a love language value verbal acknowledgements of affection, including frequent "I love you's", compliments, words of appreciation, verbal encouragement, and often frequent digital communication like texting and social media engagement.

• Physical Touch

  

  People with physical touch as their love language feel loved when they receive physical signs of affection, including kissing, holding hands, cuddling on the couch, and sex. Physical intimacy and touch can be incredibly affirming and serve as a powerful emotional connector for people with this love language. The roots go back to our childhood, Motamedi notes, some people only felt deep affection and love by their parents when they are held, kissed, or touched.