Do you know your Love Language?

[joelsgirl]

Are you familiar with the concept? Here is a test you can take if you aren't.

Basically, the author, Gary Chapman, says that there are five ways we give/receive love: Acts of Service, Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Physical Touch and Giving Gifts. It was written as a marriage book, but he's expanded it to just about everything since it's made him a lot of money and helped a lot of people.

My love language is quality time, which happens to be the lowest of my husband's languages. But when life forces us to be together, like when we were in language school in Indonesia and went everywhere & did everything together, I was high on love. But when Joel is too busy to just sit with me, I'm basically a train wreck.

His love language is acts of service, which, of course, happens to be my lowest score, and I constantly have to remind myself that I'm serving him so he feels loved, even though in my heart I feel like, "Just do it yourself!" He told me once that he feels loved when I make the bed, so I try really hard to do that, even though I find no value in it.

What about you? What's your love language and how do you see it played out in your life?