Five Languages of Love

So the singles 20something life group I'm in are currently going through the "Five Languages of Love." Do you know what they are? Well I'll tell you what they are in no particular order:

1). Words of Affirmation
2). Quality Time
3). Receiving Gifts
4). Acts of Service
5). Physical Touch

Basically you take a quiz, like any other personality test etc and your highest score is the sign you associate most with. Believe it or not, my highest score was a 10-Quality Time with second highest- 8 Physical Touch. I'm actually kind of surprised physical touch came in second..Anyways this is really cool..I've never really thought much into the different languages of love and how people are loved..For example, if "Brett" was dating "Brenda" and he was telling her all the time that he loved her and how pretty she looked but didn't think much of it. It could quite possibly her love language was not words of affirmation but something else..Once you begin to realize your partners' love language, you are starting to realize how they tick. The more you practice, I assume the better your relationship gets..Who knows?!

Another section in this book are the two stages of love : Obsessive Love and Covenant Stage. Obsessive is exactly as is..that "I can't live without you!"...or he's so perfect...blah blah blah..Its so easy to fall into this category. Once you begin to understand each other and your stages, then you apparently move onto the second stage..if you last..Covenant meaning you're taking the time and investing your life together. If you make it to this stage, you're in good shape, I think! Its quite interesting reading these stories etc..thinking back how I was always in the very "obsessive" stages of love..never getting past it. I never stopped to think about when the world stops and my life doesn't revolve just around "him." Covenant love is conscious love. It is a commitment to no matter what.. So we'll see how the rest of these upcoming readings will go :)!