Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you.

As always, those DMs are open. So if you got a DM, drop it. And the DM's on our LoveLanaG page.

That's questions, topics you want covered. But let's kind of hit the ground running. We're going to be talking a little bit about love languages, but more importantly, how to translate them.

So here's the deal.

Remember with this love language concept, and the reason why I'm bringing it up is it came

into my practice a couple times, and someone was asking me a question about it, my DMs, and I

thought, all right, let's cover this.

You know, the whole concept of love languages was a way to really put focus on us understanding

how our partners most feel cared for.

And a lot of us are more aware, sensitive to what we need, but not really so aware of what

our partners need.

So the whole concept is to remind us to pay attention to how we're expressing

it so that our partners feel cared for. And again, remember, for those that are single or

have this nailed, this is also something that applies to friends, loved ones, family members.

How do the people in our lives that are important to us? How do they most feel cared for by us? It's really about presence. It's about when I say presence, not gifts,

but your way of being with them. P-R-E-S-E-N-C-E, presence, how you're showing up, the way you're

occupying space, the attention you're giving, the validation. But I thought it would be smart to go through some of the

different love languages and look at what are the ways that we can really engage them on that level.

Now, although the originator of this concept breaks it down into five main things, five main categories,

physical touch, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, and words of affirmation.

Those are not the end-all be-all. There are far more. Some people are more erotic in their love

language where eroticism and affection is more important to them. Other people, it's intellectual

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