However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:25
I’ll bet you thought I was gonna talk about volunteering, didn’t you? Well, you might consider this kind of service as volunteer work.
A few years ago a friend of mine told me about the book “The 5 Love Languages” by Gary Chapman. If you want to understand why your significant other does some of the things they do I highly recommend it. In it he describes what we all want our partners to do to show their love for us. The 5 languages are: quality time, physical touch (not sex), words of affirmation, receiving gifts, and ACTS of SERVICE.
You can read the book to find out what your love language is and exactly what they are about but here is a short explanation. Quality time: you want your partner to dedicate time to spend with you without interruption. Physical touch: just what it says. Receiving gifts: you want gifts, I mean who doesn’t right? Words of Affirmation: (this is mine) I want an “attaboy”. Acts of Service: if this is your love language you want your partner to do things for you. This, if you couldn’t tell is Jacky’s. Jacky really likes to call me and ask me to call someone else for him. Really? If he can call me, then why can’t he call them? Acts of Service, that’s why. Now, when he calls me to call someone else, after I roll my eyes, I call for him. That tells him I love him, then he can tell me how much he appreciates it and we are both happy.
I told another friend about the book and she read it and also decided that her husband’s language is “acts of service”. I texted her 1 day to see what she was up to and she replied, “#@%&$@ acts of service!”.
Another reason in the list of many we are such great friends! You and I are , affirmation, and both our husbands are, acts of service.
Great book and I thank you for recommending it to us!
Indeed, they are. Love you both.