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>It was a revelation when my therapist told me "You need to show love in the ways that other people want to receive it, not the way you want to send it." I'm c
by minikites 9y ago
>It was a revelation when my therapist told me "You need to show love in the ways that other people want to receive it, not the way you want to send it."
I'm curious, was it along the lines of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Love_Languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Love_Languages
- nostrademons 9y agoSimilar - you can bet that most therapists have read that and incorporate it into their practice. My wife and I are fortunate enough to share the same primary love language, but like with most couples, there are a bunch of little things where we differ. This is why they say communication is key in a relationship - if you're not communicating, you never learn that the other person might come into the relationship with subtly different values or experiences, and then when they do things that make you feel ignored or hurt, you attribute it to malice rather than ignorance.
- D-Coder 9y agoGreat little book. A friend gave me a copy... and I bought a copy for another friend.