Love Languages, a best-selling book written in 1992 by Gary Chapman, sorts loving actions into 5 main categories. Touch, Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Gifts, and Quality Time are the primary ways people give or receive love. This helpful assessment gives language for understanding how you, and those you love, affirm each other. When you understand someone’s love language, you can “speak” their language and miss the pitfalls of misunderstandings. If you’re familiar with love languages, then you know it can be tough shopping for people who’s love language is not gifts, but we’ve put some love language gift ideas together that we are excited to share with you.
By the way, if you have zero clues as to what we are talking about, you can take the love languages quiz that will help you narrow down how you best give and receive love. As challenging (and frustrating) as it can be to have an English speaker converse with a French speaker, it is equal parts frustrating when your partner’s love language is Acts of Service (example: cleaning the house) and yours is Gifts (example: you have a thousand presents waiting under the tree).
We’ve taken the five core love languages and cultivated a few gift ideas that may spark another idea or two for how to “speak” someone else’s language.