Last night Nate and I shared a most magical moment together. He stared deeply into my eyes and spoke the most profound words,
"Ginnie, I know what your love language is."
My response was,
"Stop it now. You know how hot it makes me when you talk LOVE."
(No... that really wasn't my response, but it should have been)
You see Nate is currently reading The 5 Love Languages which is great, because I've been trying to figure me out for years and since I didn't come with a users/owners manual this is probably, like, the next best thing.
If you haven't heard about the book let me give a quick run down. Basically, in a relationship there are 5 different ways a person shows/feels LOVE:
1. Words of Affirmation
2. Quality Time
3. Receiving Gifts
4. Acts of Service
5. Physical Touch
So Nate sat there next to me on the couch and began to analyze me. Which I find to be very entertaining.
"Ginnie, I have concluded that you are all of the love languages"
My initial thought was, I had no idea how talented my love was. We're talking a multilingual love here folks. You might speak one or two, but I, I speak all of them. And then it hit me, wait a minute... I'm pretty sure that's not a compliment. I know I'm a lot of things, but high maintenance? I am not.
Sure, I like my foot rubbed and being fed grapes while I soak in the bath.
And sure, I like Nate's every waking minute to be spent thinking about me and how he can make my life better.
And sure, I like him to tell me my jeans don't make me look fat repeatedly.
And sure, I like being showered with roses and diamonds and endless amounts of shopping sprees.
And sure, maybe from time to time I like Nate to wear a nice fitted pair of jeans, a little bow tie, and no shirt and ask, "Ginnie, what can I clean for you today?"
But really, what woman doesn't want that? Does it make me high maintenance?
Pfft, no! It just makes Nate lucky. Lucky that he can receive the great blessings that come from serving his loving multilingual love speaking wife.
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Truth be told, I'm not all of those love languages. Not at all. I would definitely say that I am Acts of Service. To serve me is to love me.
Dear Nate. I'm sorry.
With deepest love that burns in my bosom,
Ginnie
PS- You're the best husband I've ever had.
(for all you non-love language talkers,
that was Words of Affirmation.)
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4 comments:
Funny! Ask Nate to figure out what Daegan's love language is. Ya know....since they were practically dating in school. Cause I don't think he is on that list.
I haven't read the book but we talked about this in my mommy group when C was a baby. I'm definitely words of affirmation (flattery will get you everywhere baby) and my hubby is physical touch so when he's having a hard day I give him a good head rub :).
Your a crack up. I too have multiple love languages... it makes our marriage more exciting... instead of being predictable... he gets to figure out which love language I need most for THAT day! Good read. My father in law is a big fan of it so I read it when we were first married.
Love it. I can never say anything serious because I'm laughing at the end! Hope you guys got each other figured out. I'm still working on that too, btw.
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