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Quality Time: The 5 Love Languages

I used to, literally, only be a Quality Time kind of guy.

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Quality Time: The 5 Love Languages
Tiger Khokunthod

I've changed a lot this summer. God has been working in me. Telling me who I am, and especially, how to love better and to be loved. I've taken "The Five Love Languages" test about 4 times already. And every time, it changes. Because I'm constantly being worked on and I'm always at a different place in life. Here's my list.

10 Quality Time

8 Words of Affirmation

6 Acts of Service

5 Physical Touch

1 Receiving Gifts

Quality Time. No question. It's always been at the top and Receiving Gifts have always been at the bottom.

God has been changing me with those 3 middle profiles. Earlier this summer, Physical Touch was probably a 2. I hated physical touch. I didn't understand what it meant and definitely didn't understand why people liked to hug me, or anything like that. A lot of my friends at camp are Physical Touch people. And through them, I've kind of just started accepting it a little bit more.

Speaking of accepting things, I'm really glad Words of Affirmation and Acts of Service have gone up. I'm not kidding, I used to, literally, only be a Quality Time kind of guy. We do a lot of camp. Because I work in the Chapel, the level of excellence is incredibly high. I've been more willing to allow people to help me. I understand that I can't really do a lot of things by myself. Also, because Chapel often comes with me leading worship, I'm starting to become more open to Words of Affirmation. Why? Because I really need it. If I didn't have my friends pressing into me and loving the crap out of me, I would be a mess. I would've given up a whole lot earlier. So thanks.

And this will keep changing. As I grow and learn more about myself, I'm hoping that one day, gifts can go up. Reminder that this isn't something that holds me into a box but something that can allow me to love better and allow others to love me better as well.

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