Physical touch can be anything from holding hands, to back rubs, to a peck on the cheek or making love. As with all the love languages there are nuances and such.
A person might have physical touch as their primary language, but their spouse still needs to understand what kind of touch their husband or wife prefers...is it holding hands, long embraces, pecks on the neck...what is it?
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It's not surprising that we can boil down our expressions of love into five different love languages. After all these languages were originally spoken by Jesus.
These are the different ways that Jesus expressed His love to us while He was on this earth...
He is the Word of God (John 1:14) and the Bible is His love letter of words of encouragement to you (Hebrews 12:5).
He left His heavenly home to come and spend quality time with His people on this earth. When He returned to His heavenly home, He sent His Holy Spirit to be with us (John 14:26). Jesus also went away from the crowds and had special times of fellowship with His disciples (Mark 6:31).
Jesus Christ Himself is a love gift. He laid down His life for us because He loves us so much! (John 3:16). He also gave us many spiritual gifts.
He also served His disciples in many ways...remember the acts of service when He washed their feet (John 13) and He cooked the fish for their breakfast (John 21:9&12).
And finally, Jesus touched people. He laid His hands on people and healed them. He picked up the little children and blessed them (Mark 10:16).
Jesus expressed His love in so many different ways because He knows
that we all experience love a little bit differently. Jesus set a wonderful example of the many different ways there are to express love to one another.
In fact Gary Chapman realized that it's not just our spouses whom we need to communicate love to, but our children and teenagers as well.
So he wrote more books to help people express their heartfelt love most effectively to one another: The Five Love Languages of Children, The Five Love Languages of Teenagers as well as a Love Languages book for singles.
Love languages really are the expression of love that meets the emotional needs of your partner. In other words, we feel most loved when our emotional needs are being met. In fact that's what gives us that tingly, in love feeling...getting our emotional needs met.
May God bless you as you practice speaking and exploring the five love languages with your spouse!
