What are the Five Languages of Love?   1. Words of Affirmation:__________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 2.  Quality Time:_________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Because we all need to have quality conversations, we are including tips from the Quality Time Love Language tools for you to learn.   These Tools can be used no matter the love language.               Quality Conversation PRACTICAL TIPS:         Maintain eye contact when the person is talking.         Don't listen to the person and do something else at the same time.         Listen for feelings.  Ask yourself, "What emotion is she/he experiencing?         Observe body language.  Sometimes body language speaks one message while                                                                                                                                                                                       words speak another.  Ask for clarification so you know what is really being felt.         Refuse to interrupt.  The average person only listens for seventeen seconds before                                                                                                                                                                             interjecting his own ideas.         Remember the Goal is to learn the other persons thoughts and feelings, to                                                                                                                                                                                      understand them.   3.  Receiving Gifts:_______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4.  Acts of Service:________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 5.  Physical Touch:_______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ How to discover your love language and the love language of others?_____________ _______________________________________________________________________  Three ways to determine your love language:                                     1. What do people do or fail to do that hurts you most deeply?                                         The opposite of what hurts you most is probably your language.                                     2. What do you most often request of people?  The thing you most                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    often request is likely what will make you feel most loved.                                     3.  In what way do you regularly express love?  Your method of                                          expressing love may be an indication of your language. If you will watch, look and listen, you can find out the language of others.  Listen for their criticism - that's a direction for love.  Look to see the language they are speaking.   Listen for what hurts them.  Talk about the languages together.   What is the character of love? (I Cor 13:4-8) The character of Love is..... Long-suffering (patient), kind, does not seek its own way, is not easy provoked, thinks no evil, rejoices in truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, never fails (doesn't end). Not full of envy, does not lift up itself, is not boastful or proud, does not behave in a way that would bring shame to Our Father (or our family), rejoices not in evil (keeps no records of wrongs). LOVE IS A CHOICE and ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.....   NOTES: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________