My Love Language

For this post I've taken an assessment to discover my love language on http://www.5lovelanguages.com/. The assessment is a series of 30 statements to which you pick the one you feel is most true. After just a few minutes my score was revealed! (Ta-Da!)

Here's the outcome:
8 Words of Affirmation
11 Quality Time
1 Receiving Gifts
2 Acts of Service
8 Physical Touch

The higher numbers represent the categories I value most in relationships; where as the lower numbers have less significance to me. Overall, my scores were as I thought they'd be. But, let me tell you... the statements leading to my scores were quite tough!! As my scores show, when it came to statements about receiving gifts I was always certain the second statement was more true. However, I never thought I'd have such a hard time prioritizing between statements containing  physical touch or words of affirmation. And THEN when I did choose the statement regarding affirmation I found myself shocked to learn I need that in my relationships. Is it common to want appreciation as much as a hug every once in while? Of course my relationships thrive on quality time, but the other two (words of affirmation and physical touch) round out my perfect love language. Huh.  I will say though, before taking the test I had seen results posted from peers and knew, when it was my turn to partake in this assessment, quality time would be number one. I always crave a day off, with errands and chores already done, so I can spend quality time with, well, anyone! My dog, my boyfriend, my neighbor, family, or friends. (Yes, my dog is first on my list. Crazy dog lady.)  All-in-all, this was a great reflecting process. Perhaps, (just because my boyfriend and I joke if match.com would have put us together) I'll have him take the assessment along with close friends and family to see if my relationships reach new levels of understanding and compassion. It's such a simple process, but there is so much to be discovered!