Seeing Quality Time As Sacred
Choosing yourself and others who make you feel loved is key
Learning about how each of us gives and receives love from The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman was eye-opening.
It helped me better understand why my friend enjoys exchanging gifts, why my mother appreciates a clean house and why my sister loves hugs. And it also helped me realize why I value quality time.
Sometimes our love languages aren’t met because we or the people around us don’t understand our needs. Depending on what your primary love language is, you might crave words of affirmation, acts of service, physical touch, receiving gifts or quality time.
While meeting any of these needs can be tricky, receiving quality time from others can also be difficult, particularly in our technology-saturated world. In order to have quality time, you need to have both time and attention available. People get busy with their jobs and families. There’s get-togethers and appointments and chores. And sometimes you just need a lazy lie-in on a Sunday to recover from the week. Other times you’d rather scroll through social media than go for a coffee with someone. So where does quality time fit in?
As someone whose first love language is quality time, I’ve occasionally felt disconnected from co-workers…
