I Spent Nearly Two Weeks Recovering From Surgery and My Husband Never Visited Once—Then I Came Home and Froze at the Front Door
His mistake was trying to express love through completed objects when the form of love I needed was presence.
Eventually he learned the difference.
PART 61 — LOVE LANGUAGE IS NOT AN EXEMPTION
People joked:
“Acts of service must be his love language.”
Maybe.
But “love language” cannot become:
Therefore I do not have to provide the kind of support my partner is clearly asking for.
Gavin loves fixing things.
I love words.
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