Lesson #11: Learn your love language 🐨
How do you receive and express love?
Tip: Learn your peoples’ love languages ✨
If your favorite person could give you anything, what would you want? A scrapbook of memories? A hug? Or even a pep talk? The answer depends on your love language — your preferred way to receive and express love. Knowing your love language, as well as your favorite peoples’, can help you build more loving and meaningful relationships with them :)
Insight: Emotions have their own languages 😲
30 years ago, Baptist pastor Richard Chapman was counselling couples. That’s when he came up with 5 love languages, so couples could better tune into each other’s ways of expressing love:
Since then, some researchers have questioned the scientific validity of these love languages, whereas other researchers have tried to introduce a 6th love language: food.
Meanwhile, Chapman has been busy creating languages for apologies, anger, and appreciation. It will be interesting to see how this debate plays out, but there is one thing most people generally agree on: knowing your own and the other person’s love language predicts greater relationship satisfaction :)
Resource: The Love Language Quiz 😍
Take the quiz to find out your love language (it’s a free, multiple-choice quiz):
So, to recap: knowing your love language can improve all types of relationships. And knowing how to express your love in the other person’s love language is a superpower :)
We hope you learnt as much as we did this week!
Until next time,
With love and bear hugs,
Koa & Shriya 🥰✨