Monday, April 11, 2016

Love in different ways

I have always had trouble falling asleep @ night, growing up it was a curse as my dad did not understand how someone could stay awake after their head hit the pillow.. now I am naughty and spend time on the internet/ my phone when I am trying to will my body to sleep. The other night I came across this picture..
It started me thinking about my history with love and how true it is that love does not die, but sometimes it does not get replenished or reciprocated. But while looking @ my last break up I can see that the love was there from both of us, but the other could not see it. That then got me thinking about a book. This book has changed the way I look at relationships. Both romantic and not.. I have learned from this how to be a better friend, lover, and person.  I had read it before, but I have learned this 2nd part just in the last few months.. that is all people involved in the relationship must be on board with learning how to show love to others... because if one person is working on the relationship and the other is not then there will be little to no forward progress. 
The book is the 5 Love Languages. By Gary Chapman. It talks about how we all feel love in different ways and most of the time your language is not the same as your spouse. 
Over the last few months we have sat down and read it aloud in the evenings (not all but semi regularly) while we have not gotten far in the book, we are all seeing how growing and learning  can be beneficial for all of us.. and how the kids are going to see us learning how to show love in other ways, they can see how family should work.  Not saying that we never fight... but that we are always working on our relationship(s)

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