According to Dr. Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages, you can open new paths of communication with your significant other by
discovering how each of you expresses love and wants to be shown love
(some want words of affirmation, others look for quality time, gifts,
acts of service, and/or physical touch).
The
expression of love and the experience of being loved can also vary a
great deal depending upon the personalities in the partnership.
Consider
(tongue-in-cheek) which of the metaphors below is most characteristic
of your approach to relationships; then ask your significant other to do
the same, and compare your answers (if you'd like to know more about
about the Enneagram personality styles that might hold each view, click on that
metaphor's link):
- Love should be examined as if it's a gallery portrait, hunting for flaws in the brush strokes.
- If grass can grow through cement, then love can find you at any time in life.
- If love isn't blind, then at least it needs an eye test.
- When you're in love, you get a taste of what it feels like to be a bit deranged.
- Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
- Love is a fire, but you can never tell whether it's going to warm your heart or burn down your house.
- Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason novels are more amusing than history.
- Love is like war: easy to start and difficult to stop.
- True love is like a good pair of socks; it takes two, and they have to match.
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