I was more thinking where you want their love expressed. Frex, if I said I needed "Consideration or Respect" their love should be one that appreciates me as a person with Pride.
Seriously, if you looked at my "GoodReads" list you'd see I have a "shelf" marked something like "interesting" (or "important") "discomfort." I want to be challenged. I don't want to be miserable, but there are some books I didn't like that were still important to have experienced.
I don't think these were it, but they were pushing at some of the tender bits I've got right now, the ones I've worried the fur off of and are kind of sensitive.
I'm not sure how you mean the question, but I can talk about the way I love other people (and God) and the way I can let other people love me.
What I give to my partners is a passionate, tender, encompassing acceptance of who they really are. "I'm going to know you right down to the bone, and I am going to love all of you."
The kind of love I want from them is respect -- which may be a cooler way of saying the same thing. And I also very much need them to accept my love and to want to be touched. It's far harder for me to receive touch than to give it.
The love I feel for God is boundless gratitude and appreciation for the smallest details of the world and for every blessing -- and for Her painful sacrifice of Her own son/self, Jesus.
Awesome. No, really. I was trying not to get the "love languages" involved (although I think "generosity" kind of nudged the line) but more touch some of the places love does that isn't just romantic needs.
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"...that is aggravating me on a level I only express in frustration (makes me cry)..." WHY ARE YOU READING IT? Why?
Ouch, girl.
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Seriously, if you looked at my "GoodReads" list you'd see I have a "shelf" marked something like "interesting" (or "important") "discomfort." I want to be challenged. I don't want to be miserable, but there are some books I didn't like that were still important to have experienced.
I don't think these were it, but they were pushing at some of the tender bits I've got right now, the ones I've worried the fur off of and are kind of sensitive.
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What I give to my partners is a passionate, tender, encompassing acceptance of who they really are. "I'm going to know you right down to the bone, and I am going to love all of you."
The kind of love I want from them is respect -- which may be a cooler way of saying the same thing. And I also very much need them to accept my love and to want to be touched. It's far harder for me to receive touch than to give it.
The love I feel for God is boundless gratitude and appreciation for the smallest details of the world and for every blessing -- and for Her painful sacrifice of Her own son/self, Jesus.
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