The Language of Love

I'm going to preface this post with one fact:  I think all social sciences are voodoo magic.

Now, I understand, that can be taken as a bit, or very, extreme, but I'm a microbiologist and I like things that are quantifiable and logical; social sciences just don't do that for me--if you ask a social scientist how sure they are of what they are presenting you're going to get a really weird answer and I'm not okay with that.

That being said, I do think that a lot of their ideas and studies stem from true doctrine and principles and when viewed in the right light the veil of magic can be lifted and true understanding can thing spring forth.  With that being said, there has been talk about the 'language of love' and how different people precept love and what is most important to them.  I took a test, along with my wife, and we both scored high on the 'acts of service' language, that when we do something for one another it shows our love in ways that we can both understand--her second, along with mine, was that of words of affirmation.

Now, I'm not saying that what the test said was completely true, or that it was completely false, but I do hold fast to what the Bible says:

"For in many things we offend all.  If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.  Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body," (James 3:2-3).

To replace hurtful words with words of love, or actions for that matter, is always a good thing and if I can make my wife happy I'm all for it.

I'm not saying we each need to take the survey, but we should pay attention to what our spouses enjoy and strive to help replace words and actions.