love language

[luhv lang-gwuhj]

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noun

a person's way of expressing or receiving love, affection, and care.

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So I was like, OK, let me educate everyone on who I am and what my real love language is, which is the stage.

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For the crafty couple, home renovations are their love language.

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He didn’t know that travel and road trips in particular were my love language — nature too.

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“We always want to reset the dynamic, because part of their love language is clapping back at each other. It’s in that friction that they start to crack and evolve and their ideas start to change. If it was just a hangout show where everything was copacetic, I think people wouldn’t have the same kind of investment.”

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You don't have the chutzpah to call your raspberry spread business "a love language" unless you're unabashedly looking for love yourself.