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Love Language

Take this quiz to find out which love language you use.  Takes ~5 min.
http://www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/love/

Which one do you use?

Feel free to also discuss your thoughts on the subject.

 

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Re: Love Language

  • A friend of mine was telling me about this, and i thought of it when Niq posted about the Happiness Project book.  I thought it was more "How do i communicate love" than "how to i best receive love communication" so that threw me a bit, but i think that probably makes more sense, anyway.  The wording on a lot of the questions made it hard to answer at first b/c a lot of them ask about one's partner's actions, not one's preference about those actions.  It still could be a useful tool to think about how we best communicate love with our partners.

    Mine is quality time, followed by physical touch.  This seems about right.


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  • words of affirmation. i need to be reminded i'm loved-----sounds kinda pitiful Sad
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  • Mine was also words of affirmations. I always love hearing DH telling me I look nice, especially when I feel like crap.

    I don't think we're pitiful jenn! Big Smile

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  • Mine is words of affirmation too. I need to continually hear that I am loved and appreciated etc. I sorta agree with jennlin that it seems pitiful......but we are who we are.....and it's pretty common.
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  • imagejennlin:
    words of affirmation. i need to be reminded i'm loved-----sounds kinda pitiful Sad
    imagekinmir30:
    Mine is words of affirmation too. I need to continually hear that I am loved and appreciated etc. I sorta agree with jennlin that it seems pitiful......but we are who we are.....and it's pretty common.
    The point is that everyone needs to be told (in some way) that they are loved, and different people respond better to different ways that can be communicated.  Yours is verbal.  Nothing to pity!
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  • Receiving Gifts is my top one followed by both Words of Affirmation and Physical Touch. Seems about right to me...
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  • Words of Affirmation with a score of 8 and tied for a very close second are Quality Time, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch with score of 7 for each.  Wonder what that actually means? I'm just super needy!?? Stick out tongue
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  • i love the 5 love languages. it is such a great book. it really changed the way H and I did things for eachother. we read it outloud together.
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  • I had H do the quiz... and I wasn't surprised that his top one was Words of Affirmation.
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  • imageJohlise:
    I had H do the quiz... and I wasn't surprised that his top one was Words of Affirmation.

    my H's is words of affirmation too!

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  • imageJohlise:
    I had H do the quiz... and I wasn't surprised that his top one was Words of Affirmation.

    that's cute--boys need love too :)

    i don't need my h to take the quiz-- judging by the q's we got i know he'll be the one that wants me to cleanup after him w/o being asked. and if i make him take the quiz he might just be resentful that i don't hahaha 

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  • imagejennlin:

    imageJohlise:
    I had H do the quiz... and I wasn't surprised that his top one was Words of Affirmation.

    that's cute--boys need love too :)

    i don't need my h to take the quiz-- judging by the q's we got i know he'll be the one that wants me to cleanup after him w/o being asked. and if i make him take the quiz he might just be resentful that i don't hahaha 

    I think a lot of men will have this as theirs, because men need to feel appreciated, by being told that they are strong.. helpful... etc etc. ... it just is who they are! 

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  • My husband and I have both taken this one before... :)

    My top two (very closely scored!) are Physical Touch and Quality Time, in that order.

    His top two (also very closely scored!) are Quality Time and Physical Touch, in that order.

    ...We spend a lot of time cuddling on the couch together, haha.

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  • My language is Acts of Service.  I always feel so loved and appreciated whenever I don't have to nag DH to clean up after himself or when he does household chores without me having to ask him to do them.
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  • I'm words of affirmation first. Then acts of service. Then gifts. Then physical touch. Then quality time.

    D's is quality time. Physical touch. acts of service. Words of affirmation. and Gifts. :P

    We are so opposite. ;-;

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  • I was an 8 on Acts of Service. I really suck at housework and don't like it at all and so I REALLY appreciate how much of it H does! I then scored 6 on everything else except for "Words of Affirmation" which got a 4. That's a little surprising to me. When I reflect on words versus gifts, I guess it's because my mom will tell me she loves me a lot, but is not good at the gift giving and often gives me things I would never want, whereas H puts SO much incredible thought into his gifts that I'm often bowled over the by them. (As in, he stole an earring that was the remainder of my favorite pair but I lost one before we started dating so that he could try to match it to buy me a new pair. Or finding things I've mentioned I couldn't find for myself and must not exist anymore.)
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