Comments on: 5 Ways to Tell Your Daughter, “I Love You”

By: Come Shoot the Breeze with Me! | A Classic Housewife, Daily Life

Come Shoot the Breeze with Me! | A Classic Housewife, Daily Life — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:50:22 +0000

[...] 5 Ways to Tell Your Daughter “I love you.” (Or son.) [...]

By: Carole

Carole — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:47:07 +0000

I think that there is nothing that speaks love louder than quality time. One day your daughter might need affiramtion, another day support, another day a hug. You’ll never know if you don’t spend time with them. My daughter seems to prefer quality time, but is that because I always made it a point to give her that, or was that always part of her personality? When seh was younger, it was about receiving gifts. I don’t think you settle into one specific love language preference until you’re older. I’m the most difficult. My preferred love language is service, but I want you to instinctivly know what I need done and do it. But it’s commonsense stuff – like if the garbage is overflowing, take it out without me having to tell you – you know? My daughter caught on much easier than my husband.

By: Amber @ Classic Housewife

Amber @ Classic Housewife — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:56:27 +0000

So true! I’ve never really been able to nail down my own preferred language – I just want to feel loved! And my girls do, too. And regardless of which one our own love language is, or our spouse’s or our child’s – how important it is to learn to model love in a variety of ways, and to learn to show love to others in ways beyond what we prefer. I want my daughters to be able to show love to their spouses regardless of who has what love language, so how very important for them to be modeled alll the ways and practice alll the ways to show love, from a young age.
I like how you pointed out that these don’t have to be grand gestures, and what a reminder to me, to use simple phrases, actions, gifts, to show my loved one I love them. Thanks!

By: Erica Mueller

Erica Mueller — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:53:16 +0000

I’ve never read the actual original book. We went thru a short study of the teen version with my old youth group, and I really enjoyed it. I’ll have to find the original, and see if I can get hubs to read it too. I think it really helps to understand each others Love Language.