Loving relationships are truly a blessing. They are an oasis in a challenging and difficult world. But while romance may arise spontaneously and fill us with love, once the honeymoon phase has passed, we usually need to invest to maintain and deepen our love for our partner.
“The key to finding joy in loving others is to focus on giving love, not on getting it,” Gary Chapman, an author, speaker, and counselor, writes in his book “Love as a Way of Life.”
Chapman also was the one who discovered the five love languages, a facet of human nature in which we tend to feel love based primarily on one of these five things: words of affirmation, acts of service, gifts, quality time, and physical touch….