Love a word often mentioned but equally misconstrued. Love does not bind, it does not hide. It never limits or dilutes. It adds to the mind, expanses the soul and heals the body. Love is not the violent winds of change that makes people change, it is the soft breeze that bends and lifts the single blade of grass.--tydestra

[Error: unknown template qotd]Yes, yes. Or let's say true love develops over time, and there is definitely infatuation at first sight which may or may not become true love. (Originally posted as a comment to wastingmythyme's answer on her LJ)

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Physical Touch
with a secondary love language being
Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Physical Touch:		12
Quality Time:		9
Words of Affirmation:		5
Acts of Service:		4
Receiving Gifts:		0

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Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

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This Friday night and Saturday is Tu B'Av. It is the full moon in this month of Av. The holiday of Tu B'Av is most hidden holiday but it is the highest and most joyous day of the year if you know how to receive the energy available on this most awesome of days. It is known as the day of love, it is the day to meet and be with the soul mate, to be with one's own soul in a new and deeper way.

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Rereading the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's Chelsea Hotel I shudder at the callousness of the final staza.

"carry into your everyday encounters an awareness that empathic understanding makes sense."

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