Speak Your Wife’s Love Language
We love because HE first loved us with the deepest kind of sacrificial love that we can never return. This kind of love is so powerful that we have no choice but to try and pour as much of that love as possible out onto the people in our lives, with our spouses always taking first priority.
However, as Bri Lamm shares in an article recently posted on FaithIt, because we were all created uniquely in God’s image, “the ways in which we love others, and feel loved ourselves, are different.”
In his book “The 5 Love Languages,” Gary Chapman writes that there are five different ways that people can receive love: words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, and physical touch. Through answering the questions in his book you can discover which of these love languages fills your heart up the most.
As Lamm and her husband discovered after taking the assessment, the ways that they felt the most loved were very different from each other.
“We took the test together to identify our own love languages so that we could communicate to each other, exactly what we need in order to fill our love buckets. In knowing what we need individually, we’re also able to recognize how we naturally love the other person,” Lamm wrote. “For example, my love language is words of affirmation. So I naturally build my husband up, and constantly use words to love him, assuming they make him feel loved.”
Though Lamm naturally leans towards showering her spouse with words of affirmation, the fact is that he actually feels the most loved when he is spending quality time with his wife. Which, in turn, is the way that he tends to show his love to Lamm.
So what do you do when each spouse expresses and feels the most loved in different ways from each other? The first step is taking the time to learn what love languages are the strongest for your spouse. This way you can show that you truly care and want to get to know your spouse better.
Once you know how your spouse feels the most loved make sure to be intentional about expressing their love language back to them. If they need quality time then put aside time in your week to give them the attention and focus that they need.
In her article, Lamm points out that it can be hard for some men to express how they feel in words to their spouse. Her suggestion is to find quotes on love that can be shared with your spouse if words of affirmation happens to be their love language.
Below are 20 quotes to share with your wife if you are just not sure of how to adequately express your love for her:
#1: Thank you for giving me the most wonderful years and the most beautiful life.
#2: Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
#3: “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
#4: I still remember the days I prayed for the things I have now.
#5: I want to make you smile for the rest of your life.
#6: “You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.” – A.R. Asher
#7: I still fall for you, every day.
#8: You will forever be my always.
#9: I love being loved by you.
#10: “You are my love story, and I write you into everything I do, everything I see, everything I touch and everything I dream, you are the words that fill my pages.” – A.R. Asher
#11: The most wonderful thing I decided to do was to share my heart, and life with you.
#12: I fell in love with you because of the million things you never knew you were doing.
#13: “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” – The Chaos of the Stars
#14: Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
#15: Happiness looks gorgeous on you.
#16: Have I mentioned today how lucky I am to be in love with you?
#17: When I follow my heart, it leads me to you.
#18: In you, I’ve found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend.
#19: I have looked at you in millions of ways and have loved you in each.
#20: “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
