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Why You Should Learn to Speak Every Love Language
It’s great when you and a partner or friend share love in the same ways. It can make communication easier because you both operate within the same framework. But it’s also important to know how to navigate differences in love languages, because love languages don’t just apply to intimate relationships.
Knowing your coworkers’ love languages is helpful.
Knowing your parents’ love languages is helpful.
Knowing your roommates’ love languages is helpful.
Additionally, if you have multiple partners, keeping track of everyone’s love language is especially helpful to navigate the essential communication of polyamory.
So it’s important to learn and be able to communicate within each of the five love languages.
Why you should learn them all
Knowing someone’s love language is like having a cheat sheet for making them feel better.
When I’m having a bad day, friends who know my love languages will write me really nice messages about what I mean to them, because words of affirmation and reassurance are the best way for me to feel loved.
