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Why Love Languages Are a Load of B.S.
Part 3: How to speak love languages fluently
You keep hearing about this whole love languages thing. Maybe you didn’t bother reading Gary Chapman’s book, The Five Love Languages, but if you read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, you get the gist of how they may help you with dating and relationships.
By now, if you’re like me, you may be thinking, “This crap doesn’t work.”
That’s right. I’ve gone through all this trouble to teach you how to speak love languages, yet I’m the first to call “B.S.” on it.
Here, I’ll give you three reasons why this whole love language thing may not work, along with three remedies.
1. We’re hogging all the love languages.
On a date, a guy told me his three love languages.
“You have three love languages?” I checked to make sure I heard right. “But there are only five. Does that mean you’re high maintenance?” I teased him.
I was already thinking, “Whoa! This guy is going to be a lot of work. I’d have to speak three languages fluently. Should I even go out on a second date with him?”
It took me a minute to realize he wasn’t high-maintenance. He just didn’t actually understand the whole love…
