The languages of love

The languages of love

There are different ways to express love and they are all valid. It is interesting to know the different love languages to identify which ones we use most frequently. They also help us understand the different ways that people who love us use to communicate their love to us. Here we leave you some:

  • Sharing quality time, for example, reserving one day a week to spend time together doing something you like.
  • With presence and attention, for example, actively listening, without looking at your cell phone in the meantime. Presence and attention are important when someone is communicating something important to us, we can actively listen and offer empathetic and constructive feedback.
  • With mutual care, for example, when a person faces an important or difficult moment, we can offer them our emotional support, make them dinner or ask them what they need.
  • With emotional responsibility. Sometimes, we need to convey needs that can emotionally affect the other person(s). Affective responsibility involves communicating our needs, doing so in the most assertive way possible and ensuring that our message arrives correctly and how it is received by the other person(s).
  • Through physical contact: such as hugs, caresses, gestures, massages, etc.
  • With kind words: from affectionate names to flattery and compliments.
  • Mutual support: is transmitted through presence, trust and knowing that you can count on the other person(s)
  • Making a balanced distribution of tasks and responsibilities if there is coexistence. The distribution of tasks should not be equal, but equitable. That is, it must take into consideration the set of tasks and responsibilities that each person covers to be as fair as possible.
  • Through favours or “acts of service”: having someone cook something delicious, clean up the house or walk the dog so you don’t have to worry about it, is a way to transmit love.
  • With gifts: they can be material or immaterial (concerts, trips, parachute jumps, etc.).