In this long-awaited follow-up, Dr. Chapman and Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott take the world-changing concept of the 5 Love Languages® one step further. They reveal why love often gets lost in translation—and how learning to speak the right dialect at the right time is the key to deeper connection.
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| Gary Chapman and Les & Leslie Parrott: How Do You Receive Love? | The Love Language That Matters Most | February 13, 2026
- My love language is acts of service.
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- My love languages are words of affirmation and physical touch.
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- Myself, i'd say probably the love and affirmation
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- Definitely service. my love language is
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- Words of affirmation.
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- I know that he needs physical touch.
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- Lots of hugs,
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- But i think he actually gives out a lot of acts of service.
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- I'd say i probably need some improvement on that area.
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- Communication. probably.
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- We could be off a little bit.
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- I could definitely be better
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- At being preemptive about the acts of service,
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- Instead of just doing when things are told for me to do.
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- I always try to do things when she asks me to do them.
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- I don't leave those things undone,
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- But if i could be preemptive,
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- I think she would feel even more loved.
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- Most mornings i get up earlier than her.
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- Not super early,
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- But i make breakfast, so it's just a way
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- That she can wake up and she's got breakfast ready.
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- So it's an act of service that she appreciates.
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- Hopefully.
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- And though not on the list, food
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- Is actually my top love language.
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- So that does speak to me as well.
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- My love tank today is probably,
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- Let's say, 85% full. my love tank
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- I'd say it is pretty full.
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- I would say my cup runneth over because
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- My wife is just an amazing person,
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- And we both know how to give and take from one another
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- When when one person is low, the other person gives and
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- Vice versa.
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- Ther have been so many people
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- Who said to me, dr. chapman, when we walked into your office,
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- We had no hope for our marriage.
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- We were just hoping you would affirm
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- That it was time for us to get a divorce.
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- But one of the things you said to us originally was,
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- I understand how you can get to the place where you have
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- No hope, but i want you to know i have hope for your marriage,
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- If you're willing.
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- We began to meet and begin to share some things
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- And try some things, and we can see what will happen.
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- And over and over again, i've seen individuals
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- Who were that place in their marriage ready to give up.
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- When we finally get around to the love language concept,
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- Because that's not necessarily where we start
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- And then help them discover their love language.
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- And the lights come on
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- And then they come back in the next session or two and say,
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- You know, doctor chapman, this is really changing things.
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- This is amazing what's happening. and so
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- Two months later, three months later, nine months later,
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- Depending on the difficulties that they're coming out of,
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- They walk out of my office holding hands and saying,
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- We just want to thank you.
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- We never, ever dreamed that we could have
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- The kind of marriage we have now.
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- The love language that matters most.
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- This episode we're talking about acts of service.
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- And let's say that dialects that exist in that
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- One of the original five love languages.
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- Talk to me a little bit-
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- Acts of service and the dialects that now we're learning
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- About in the love language that matters most.
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- Well, acts of service is my wife's primary love language.
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- Before i knew anything about love languages,
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- I gave her words of affirmation
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- Because that's what makes me feel loved.
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- And one night she said, you keep saying i love you.
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- If you love me, why don't you help me?
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- And i said, what do you mean?
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- She said, you don't ever offer to wash the dishes or vacuum
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- The floor or clean the toilet. you don't offer to do anything.
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- I didn't say anything,
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- But i was thinking, woman, what are you talking about?
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- My mother did those things, you know.
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- So way back then, she was trying to tell me her love language.
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- And she was giving me three dialects specifically
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- On how to do it.
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- So i am really excited about this new book because i think
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- It's going to help people learn not only the concept
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- Acts of service is doing something
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- For the other person that's meaningful to them,
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- But it's also identifying the different dialects within that.
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- There's all kind of those.
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- And that's why i'm really happy
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- That i brought les and leslie on,
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- Because they've been a big part of this book.
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- And so i'm excited about this.
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- Give some other illustrations.
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- I will tell you, i love talking about this love language
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- Because it's mine. right.
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- All right. and it's yours too. is. yes. yeah.
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- And anything that makes life easier for me
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- When she can do something that makes my life easier,
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- It fills up my love tank.
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- That's so true.
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- Just this last week, you had a flight back from nashville.
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- It was delayed. it got late.
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- You had been planning to just.
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- Yes, i know, take the light rail home.
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- But you dialed in late at night from the airport,
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- And i said, i know.
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- I said i was going to take the train back to our place.
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- Can you come pick me up?
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- Yeah.
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- I just can't do 45 minutes on the plane after getting home.
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- And she did.
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- She showed up
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- Through the traffic in seattle and picked me up.
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- Oh, man, my love tank soars
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- When you know that's making my life easier, right?
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- Because acts of service make you feel like someone cares
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- For your well-being.
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- My love language is acts of service.
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- My love language is physical touch.
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- Acts of service feel like.
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- I think at the bottom of it, there's a desire for, like,
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- Stability below everything or security below everything.
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- And when mary loves me through an act of service,
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- It feels like that security need is
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- Is hit that stability needs.
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- So whether it's simple
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- But important things down to the house is in order.
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- Or i thought of this thing that would save you time
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- So you didn't have to use energy
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- There at the bottom of that, i feel so loved,
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- I think because it hits on a security thing for me,
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- Or it means now that that's done, we can
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- Relax on the couch or enjoy this awesome night together.
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- We don't have to do the other things.
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- For me, there's like a the other things
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- Have to happen first and then that can happen.
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- So when mary steps into that gap,
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- It feels like we get to experience
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- The great fruit of that.
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- That is time together where nothing else needs to happen.
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- I think of our last trip and you taking the reins on.
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- I'm going to plan these aspects of the trip or these things,
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- Or where we'll stay,
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- Or how we'll travel down the very practical logistics.
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- I am like
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- In heaven.
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- Yeah.
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- And so it sounds silly to say, but it's truly a big way.
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- I feel love.
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- Yeah.
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- You know the comedian seth meyers,
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- He did a routine on love languages,
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- And this is such a ubiquitous thing.
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- Five love languages.
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- Gary just brought this into our vernacular.
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- You see trucks that go by
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- From amazon that say, next day delivery is our love language.
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- You know, it's just it's everywhere.
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- So, seth, i saw this routine that he did
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- And he said, whoever came up with these five love languages,
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- He said he must have had acts of service as his number one
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- Love language
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- Because, my wife says, that's her her love language.
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- And he says, what's the deal? like?
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- How does he say that? he says, he goes
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- There's something off here because mine's quality time
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- So she can fill my tank.
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- If we take a ten minute walk around the block after dinner,
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- And she doesn't want to take the walk
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- Until i've cleaned all the gutters on the roof,
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- And there is something off about this
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- Because acts of service is more involved. so.
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- Yeah, so that's not really what access services is about.
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- Something huge like that, but it is making your life easier.
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- Now you guys have taken the assessment
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- And you asked about dialects, right?
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- And gary, we spent a lot of time researching
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- What are the dialects that help you speak this love language
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- Fluently. right.
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- But the person that you love
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- And one of those is it conveys care.
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- Oh yeah. right.
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- I mean, one of those and and,
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- You know, these are the little things
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- That someone thought about me beforehand.
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- So i knew that you are acts of service.
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- And so that was the way i expressed it.
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- I would turn down your sheet.
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- If you're not coming to bed when i do- pick me up at the airport.
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- That was an act of care. yeah, right.
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- And it's that's not my primary dialect within acts of service.
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- Saving time is my number one. yes it is.
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- Do you sense that at all? do you get it?
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- I'm starting to understand that inside of the five
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- Love language of acts of service that between us,
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- She abhors
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- Going to the store or running smaller errands.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, you you
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- You ordered some food, and i'm going to pick it
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- Up on the way home. yeah, that kind of thing.
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- See that kind of stuff? i mean, think about it.
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- Yeah, that's easy for me to do.
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- It's natural for me to do.
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- I would volunteer to do that.
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- But what if all she thinks about inside of acts of service
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- Is something
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- That saves her time, that is either doing it right or
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- Not doing it right?
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- So what it feels like you guys have done
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- In the love language that matters most is
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- Is broken down and given certain specific
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- Sayings that there are categories
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- Or what you're calling dialects inside of acts of service.
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- We█re talking about the love language, acts of service.
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- When you know the types of actions
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- That really meet your needs, you can help others better
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- Understand how you experienced this love language
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- So that they're likely to fill up your love tank,
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- First: conveying care.
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- This demonstrates affection and dedication, like breakfast
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- In bed or
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- Waiting patiently to pick you up after a delayed flight.
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- Second, saving time like happily
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- Running an errand or picking up your prescription.
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- Third, instilling security.
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- This is anything that relieves responsibility by saying,
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- I've got this. don't worry.
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- It gives you just a sense of being on the same team.
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- And fourth, alleviating stress.
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- This is when you can anticipate a need
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- Without even being asked.
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- When the right act of service meets the right need.
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- Love isn't just felt, it truly resonates.
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- Laurie█s is acts of service.
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- That's a strong one.
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- Okay, words of affirmation is up there.
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- Words- very close for words.
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- And according to what you answered on the assessment,
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- That's what it's says.
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- And now help me one more thing.
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- What type is it?
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- Saving time or can you tell?
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- Yea. for laurie it was alleviating stress
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- That was your number one dialect.
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- I love that because here's here's the beauty of that.
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- Your spouse notices, hey, you're feeling overwhelmed right now.
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- They step in
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- And do something that wouldn't normally be their role,
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- But because they noticed you, they really saw you.
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- Now they did something that alleviated your stress.
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- Okay, now i get it.
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- So mine is acts of service.
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- Absolutely.
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- I'm very much about efficiency and saving time.
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- So mine is absolutely like acts of service
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- And helping things to be more efficient
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- So that i can do the other things better or well.
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- I've known that,
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- Acts of service is really important to delvon
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- But after taking this premium assessment,
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- I can see now that like specifically for him,
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- Whatever i can do that will save time for him
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- And our family
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- Is my way to show love or how he receives love from me.
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- I honestly,
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- I did not know that at all until taking this assessment.
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- It's going to actually
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- Help me to be more mindful now of how i show him
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- My love in a more specific way than just like acts of service.
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- Because, you know, in my previous way of doing things
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- Would be like, you know, cooking dinner for him or,
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- You know,
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- Making sure that the house is as clean as possible,
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- That i can make it.
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- But now, like specifically knowing that like,
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- Anything that i can do that will save him time
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- Will actually fill his love tank quicker.
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- Yeah.
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- So with my love language being acts of service like
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- Elizabeth is very discerning and she is a planner.
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- She even added, a calendar to our refrigerator
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- After we had kids because we would
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- We need to be more organized and plan things like that.
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- Change my life because she was like,
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- Okay, what█s your work schedule,
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- This is the dinner meals for this week.
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- That act of service was like very powerful for us
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- Because like, she she would ask the right
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- Questions to be able to plan ahead.
- 00:12:54.363 --> 00:12:56.732
- That really meant a lot. and i realized that.
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- So since she's very discerning and she thinks ahead to be able
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- To do those acts of service in such a thoughtful way,
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- I didn't know that it was like that meaningful to you.
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- Yeah.
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- But i guess i see that it was something
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- That was like saving time for me.
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- Yea, absolutely.
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- Stuff that i don't have to think about and don't want to.
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- So that's beautiful.
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- Oh, i would say it's probably
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- Never full, but about 90% it's pretty up there.
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- Probably 90%.
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- Keep learning because we're changing.
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- We're getting older. so things
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- You never arrive and it's- it just changes what you deal with.
- 00:14:45.975 --> 00:14:50.279
- And the older you get you're dealing with new circumstances.
- 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:53.549
- It's always something new and something different.
- 00:14:53.549 --> 00:14:55.317
- And you think you're going to
- 00:14:55.317 --> 00:14:57.286
- Empty nest, you're going to be freed up or retired.
- 00:14:57.286 --> 00:14:59.455
- We go and play and then life, life happens.
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- And so you adjust.
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- You walk with the lord and you do the best you can.
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- If someone's
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- Coming to our house she stressed out.
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- Okay. so i'm coming over.
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- So the idea that there would be you know some kind of little
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- Fresh flower thing or something like that,
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- Some kind of lighting the candles,
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- Those types of things, are stressors
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- That an act of service
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- That me emptying a trash can that they're not going to
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- See because it's way back on the other side of the house,
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- Doesn't matter. this is a good one.
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- He- what he does.
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- So well as he designs things and he can place things right.
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- I can do it.
- 00:15:58.514 --> 00:15:59.515
- And he'll look at me and go, why'd you do that?
- 00:15:59.515 --> 00:16:01.417
- You know, so he's always right about that.
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- I'll just get that out in the open.
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- I can just put a bunch of knickknacks out,
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- Set them there.
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- I don't even have to say anything.
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- I'll come back, you know, later in the day or something.
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- And those are gone.
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- And i look around,
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- And he has put those beautifully and arrange them
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- Around the house.
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- That's a natural thing.
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- Could i see a big wide shot of the studio really is
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- Just kind of just as big as wide as you can get.
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- Yeah, i designed this set.
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- So, based upon just spatially,
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- The things that that come so naturally me to, to design
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- A set and do this and lights and do all this kind of stuff
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- So that there's a,
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- A beautiful heart
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- Over your shoulder or this or that or
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- This big giant acts of service.
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- This is all kind of stuff that she doesn't like to do.
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- But you could be doing acts of service wrong.
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- Is that kind of what we're saying?
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- And if that's something that you do
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- Well and you do naturally, that makes it very easy for you.
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- But now, if alleviating stress
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- And organizing things like that when someone comes over
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- Was not natural for you, it would take effort.
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- You'd have to think about it.
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- And this is the thing, we think, primarily, we think about
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- What would be meaningful to me in this area
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- And what's natural for me. and that's what we do.
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- That's why i was giving my wife words of affirmation
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- When what was she wanted
- 00:17:20.729 --> 00:17:21.663
- Was me to alleviate some of her stress.
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- She was doing all these things, and she was asking me
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- To do something to alleviate her stress.
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- Now wait a second.
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- In your professional opinion, now as a doctor,
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- You're saying people think about themselves.
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- Is that what you're saying? absolutely,
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- (laughter)
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- I know you do.
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- Always picking on me.
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- When mary takes something off of my to do list,
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- I feel loved, seen, supported, cared for,
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- I feel like i've got space.
- 00:18:08.143 --> 00:18:10.078
- The assessment totally opened my eyes to
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- If i can save him time,
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- That's the act of service he's looking for.
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- Otherwise, it kind of felt like, oh, okay, just any act i do.
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- Okay, i guess i just have to do everything.
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- Having it broken down where?
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- Luke i didn't realize he has this list in his head.
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- Of all the things that he needs to do
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- Today, you're laughing because you know it's true
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- And he can't rest
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- Or have downtime until all those things are done.
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- So when i unload the dishwasher,
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- Not my favorite thing to do, but that was in his head.
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- Had to happen.
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- When i do that,
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- Something gets ticked off that internal list
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- And it means we can connect sooner.
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- Little things like leaving the house.
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- We're going to leave the house at 815.
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- You know, we have different
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- Opinions on what 815 might mean at certain times.
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- And so,
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- Mary, a very practical way that i experience that love is,
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- Hey, i'm ready.
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- The morning things that need to happen,
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- Be it housework or personal or work, things are done.
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- I feel like
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- Best marriage of all time.
- 00:19:13.041 --> 00:19:15.143
- There's a calm that returns.
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- There's almost like this. wow.
- 00:19:17.746 --> 00:19:20.882
- What else could we fill our evening with now?
- 00:19:20.882 --> 00:19:23.085
- Now that that's done,
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- We can connect and we can be us and exist
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- In in a space differently than we could have before.
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- Final thoughts on kind
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- Of what we're trying to help people
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- With on this particular episode, acts of service.
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- What's your kind of final thoughts on that?
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- I think what i would say
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- Is just trying to help them focus in and use their energy,
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- Because it takes energy to do acts of service and time,
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- Using it in the most positive way that would be meaningful to
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- That person, not just generally, but what specifically,
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- What dialect would that say is a particular way of expressing
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- Acts of service would be most meaningful to them?
- 00:20:01.590 --> 00:20:04.092
- Less this, assessment?
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- Yeah. if you do it, you get a roadmap, don't you?
- 00:20:06.762 --> 00:20:11.833
- I mean, isn't that kind of kind of a helper piece?
- 00:20:11.833 --> 00:20:16.071
- It is. because it feels like sometimes
- 00:20:16.071 --> 00:20:19.274
- Your spouse expects you to kind of be prophetic
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- And know exactly how they want to hear it.
- 00:20:22.644 --> 00:20:25.280
- Maybe. yeah. yeah. and and maybe we're not.
- 00:20:25.280 --> 00:20:28.050
- And and so this assessment really helps
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- You kind of have a guidepost to getting
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- Acts of service done right. yeah.
- 00:20:35.324 --> 00:20:37.459
- And so if you're curious to kind of almost like x-raying
- 00:20:37.459 --> 00:20:41.129
- Your love language. right.
- 00:20:41.129 --> 00:20:42.497
- What is it all about? that's what this will do for you.
- 00:20:42.497 --> 00:20:45.133
- It doesn't just identify your love languages
- 00:20:45.133 --> 00:20:47.369
- Helps you understand the people in your life,
- 00:20:47.369 --> 00:20:49.137
- How full their love tanks are.
- 00:20:49.137 --> 00:20:51.006
- From them, how full in relationship you are.
- 00:20:51.006 --> 00:20:53.909
- But then gets into all those dialects.
- 00:20:53.909 --> 00:20:55.677
- But on acts of service, this is the page right here
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- And as you can see,
- 00:20:58.747 --> 00:21:00.048
- Saves time, alleviates stress, instill security, conveys care.
- 00:21:00.048 --> 00:21:04.086
- It not just puts them in the order for you,
- 00:21:04.086 --> 00:21:06.722
- But shows you the percentage how important they are right?
- 00:21:06.722 --> 00:21:12.761
- I think it was interesting
- 00:21:13.328 --> 00:21:14.763
- Learning under acts of service, but my dialect was care.
- 00:21:14.763 --> 00:21:17.933
- I think it kind of connects back to that.
- 00:21:17.933 --> 00:21:20.736
- My primary love language is words of affirmation.
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- It's like
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- You doing things for me because you care about my well-being.
- 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:27.576
- You care about taking care of me.
- 00:21:27.576 --> 00:21:29.311
- You care about how i'm feeling, if i'm sick or if i'm tired
- 00:21:29.311 --> 00:21:33.782
- Or whatever that is.
- 00:21:33.782 --> 00:21:34.816
- Those are times where i feel like you come in
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- And do nice things for me, and that's really important.
- 00:21:36.785 --> 00:21:40.655
- Yeah, i think for me that's the way i show,
- 00:21:40.655 --> 00:21:43.558
- I guess, the words of affirmation.
- 00:21:43.558 --> 00:21:45.494
- For me, it's like the actions count for more.
- 00:21:45.494 --> 00:21:47.996
- So it's the caring actions
- 00:21:47.996 --> 00:21:49.498
- Instead of the words of affirmations.
- 00:21:49.498 --> 00:21:50.966
- But i can remember one time, very early in our marriage,
- 00:21:50.966 --> 00:21:54.102
- It was probably one of the first times
- 00:21:54.102 --> 00:21:55.570
- That we were staying at our new house together,
- 00:21:55.570 --> 00:21:58.140
- And we were getting ready to go to bed, and i go, oh!
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- And he was like, what?
- 00:22:01.176 --> 00:22:02.411
- And i said, oh, i forgot my water bottle in the living room.
- 00:22:02.411 --> 00:22:04.413
- I'm going to go get it.
- 00:22:04.413 --> 00:22:05.547
- And he was like, what? no. and he shot up out of bed.
- 00:22:05.547 --> 00:22:07.849
- He goes,
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- Why do you have a husband if you have to go
- 00:22:08.850 --> 00:22:10.152
- Get your own water bottle?
- 00:22:10.152 --> 00:22:11.586
- And he went out and he brought me my water.
- 00:22:11.586 --> 00:22:13.255
- And i just sat there and i thought,
- 00:22:13.255 --> 00:22:14.923
- How do i what how did i get so lucky?
- 00:22:14.923 --> 00:22:17.526
- It was such a simple thing.
- 00:22:17.526 --> 00:22:19.528
- It showed me so much how much he cared for me.
- 00:22:19.528 --> 00:22:22.964
- And i think about that simple moment all the time.
- 00:22:22.964 --> 00:22:26.134
- And you probably don't even remember that.
- 00:22:26.134 --> 00:22:29.304
- This makes you an expert at loving, right?
- 00:22:30.205 --> 00:22:33.575
- It's amazing because so often we want to love.
- 00:22:33.575 --> 00:22:37.112
- We want to work at loving, but we don't work smart.
- 00:22:37.112 --> 00:22:39.948
- So you can speak the love language fluently.
- 00:22:39.948 --> 00:22:43.084
- The love language that matters most,
- 00:22:43.084 --> 00:22:45.353
- The one they speak and it feels like in addition,
- 00:22:45.353 --> 00:22:48.156
- Then you've added some kind of personality traits
- 00:22:48.156 --> 00:22:51.393
- That an extrovert
- 00:22:51.393 --> 00:22:53.161
- Or an introvert, and the way that even an act of service done
- 00:22:53.161 --> 00:22:57.766
- Kind of for the right reason, but done wrong, you know,
- 00:22:57.766 --> 00:23:01.736
- It feels like we're getting, kind of love language.
- 00:23:01.736 --> 00:23:06.775
- You know, the five
- 00:23:06.775 --> 00:23:07.976
- Love languages 2.0 is kind of what it feels like to me.
- 00:23:07.976 --> 00:23:11.613
- Love languages that matters most.
- 00:23:11.613 --> 00:23:14.816
- Acts of service. final word is yours, sir.
- 00:23:14.816 --> 00:23:17.786
- I think i would say yes.
- 00:23:17.786 --> 00:23:19.488
- Acts of service personality also has a factor here,
- 00:23:19.488 --> 00:23:23.925
- And we deal with that in the book.
- 00:23:23.925 --> 00:23:25.360
- And it's also if you take the premium assessment,
- 00:23:25.360 --> 00:23:28.363
- It will tell you
- 00:23:28.363 --> 00:23:29.364
- What their personality is and how that impacts
- 00:23:29.364 --> 00:23:32.067
- The particular one.
- 00:23:32.067 --> 00:23:33.301
- If it's acts of service, how the personality fits into that.
- 00:23:33.301 --> 00:23:36.838
- And so that's why i think this book
- 00:23:36.838 --> 00:23:39.107
- And the premium assessment are going to really help
- 00:23:39.107 --> 00:23:41.610
- People be effective in communicating love.
- 00:23:41.610 --> 00:23:44.679
- Les, can i get you some more water?
- 00:23:44.679 --> 00:23:46.348
- Please do.
- 00:23:46.348 --> 00:23:54.990
- I think one of the most common things
- 00:23:55.790 --> 00:23:57.759
- That people have misunderstood about the five love languages
- 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:02.397
- Is that they read the book, and they're focused
- 00:24:02.397 --> 00:24:05.367
- Only on themselves.
- 00:24:05.367 --> 00:24:07.168
- They're thinking in terms of,
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- Oh, this is what i've been needing
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- For all these years from my spouse.
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- And so
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- They've spent all their efforts trying to convince their spouse
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- That you need to be speaking this love language.
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- To me, that's self-centered.
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- I understand the need.
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- We have a need to feel loved.
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- But if we're focusing totally on ourselves, rather than saying,
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- You know, i read this book
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- And i realized that we have different love languages,
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- And i'm beginning to wonder
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- If i even know your love language
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- Or if i am speaking your love language.
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- See? it's other-centered,
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- And i think that's probably the most common mistake
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- People make,
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- Is they're thinking of themselves, rather
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- Than thinking of how they can enrich
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- The life of the other person.
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- Hello, i'm doctor gary
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- Chapman, author of the five love languages.
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- For 33 years, i've watched love languages change
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