Hello, Jordan — Thank you for reading and engaging on this topic.

I guess what I had hoped to do here was ‘booksplaining’ rather than mansplaining or womansplaining. Forgive me — it’s the teacher in me — but I aimed to explain a concept out of a book to help those who haven’t read it yet understand the concept. And I thought I’d help by giving examples of the concept from the book. It surely wasn’t meant to make anyone feel judged for whatever they are. If they haven’t read the book, but use the terms incorrectly, that’s quite fine too.

For sure it’s possible that some mens’ love language is, indeed, physical touch. That’s why, throughout the examples I gave, I wrote, “may be that physical touch is not your love language.” Maybe I didn’t emphasize it enough, but that means it may be that physical touch is indeed some of these men’s language, just as you said. The cool thing is, instead of anyone trying to guess whether it is or isn’t, they can just take the quiz.

Regardless, I would certainly hope no person — man or woman — loses their mind over something I’ve written, but if they do, that’s ok, too. Some women lose their minds over some things; some don’t. Some men lose their minds over some things; some don’t.