If you don’t know your and your partners love language yet, you need to get on it! It is such a beautiful way to have further understanding in how your partner operates and how they feel the most loved. With the holiday season around the corner, here are some romantic Christmas gift ideas for each love language!
- Words of Affirmation – Communication with encouragement, appreciation while you actively listen is the right way to show love to a Words of Affirmation person. A perfect gift would be love letters. Write out 12 letters, one for each month of the year in 2020. Find a pretty box or even customize a box with their initials on them. Then, each month of the year they can open a letter and read it. You can write words of encouragement, give recognition or just explain how much you love them!
- Physical Touch – Using non-verbal, body language and touch to emphasize love is key with a physical touch person. Holding hands, giving kisses and acting affectionately are important so turn it into a gift. Give your love some relaxing lavender candles, lotion and cozy blanket plus a body massage! Your partner will feel relaxed and loved by you in no time.
- Receiving Gifts – Being thoughtful while you make your spouse a priority is incredibly important with the receiving gifts language. A gift doesn’t necessarily need to be a grand gesture or really expensive, small things can matter in a big way! Print out one of your favorite pictures together and find a beautiful frame to put it in. When they open it, you can explain why you love that photo because of the time you spent together on that day. It will be the gift that keeps on giving once it is out on display!
- Quality Time – Uninterrupted and focused conversations while spending one on one time is important to a loved one who’s language is quality time. Give a fun, Christmas themed gift so you can spend time wrapped up in the holiday together. Find a great picture of the two of you and have it printed on a beautiful Christmas ornament. You can have them open the gift before or as you decorate the tree. You can spend some quality time decorating and talking about each ornament!
- Acts of Service – Using action phrases like, “I will help you with that”, are so helpful to an acts of service language. They want to know that you are partnered with them. Create a really romantic gesture like a gourmet breakfast in bed. Whip up some pancakes, eggs, fruit, champagne and orange juice (a little mimosa is in order) and bring it to them once they wake up. You can sit in bed together, eat your breakfast and start the day off with a little R and R.