27% Words of Affirmation
30% Quality Time
20% Receiving Gifts
20% Acts of Service
3% Physical Touch
Your highest score indicates your primary love language. Your second highest score indicates your secondary love language. If two scores are identical, you are bi-lingual(you have two Primary love languages). If the scores of your primary language and your secondary language are close(for example, 10 and 9 respectively), it indicates both are important to you. The highest possible score for any one love language is 12.
Having a clear picture of your primary and secondary love languages will explain much of your past behavior. Think back over the past and ask yourself, "What have I most often requested of my spouse?" Chances are your answer will lie within the scope of your primary and secondary love languages. You have been requesting that which would meet your deepest need for emotional love. Your requests, however, might have come across as nagging or criticizing and thus drove your spouse away.
Up above would be my love languages, as you see, I desire quality time and words of affirmation. When someone spends time with me I feel loved, as well as when I am complimented or praised. Each individual has a primary love language that is vital to fill when in a marriage, friendship, family, or even in work areas. When you understand how a person feels loved then you can open up on deeper levels, not argue, and feel joyful once again. This is why it is important to know, understand, and strive to meet others' love languages.
I spent over three years in a relationship where after the "passion" died down, we did not meet each others love needs. His was words of affirmation while mine was quality time. It was so hard to compliment or encourage when I did not feel that I was getting what I needed. Very rarely did it cross my mind that "maybe I should figure out why he is responding this way now." Any man of course will respond in a negative or ignoring matter if a woman is nagging, correcting, and criticizing! The further we did not strive to meet each others love language the further we fell out of what we had.
You can care very very deeply for someone, yet treat them badly. It is not right, and people should do not this, but I encourage you to go out and find love languages. In your best friends, your boyfriend, your spouse, your co-workers; then you can better so many relationships and see a new side of relationship growth. Living a life of love is a wonderful thing, a God intended thing, and not something you want to miss out on. God is love, and if you know God, then you know love. This does not mean you have to fall in love, but show love towards others like Christ has done for us.
***If you have a question on trying to find your love language, figuring out someone else's, or anything then fill free to ask! I'd be more than happy to help.
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