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Friday, March 27, 2020

Loving People How They Want To Be Loved During Social Distancing

How can we still love others in other houses, while we are still practicing social distancing?
  1. Request friends and family members take the free 5 Love Languages quiz and send you their top result(s)
  2. For those who value words: Write a note
  3. For those who value words: Speak kindly
  4. For those who value words: Compliment their efforts
  5. For those who value words: Send a text
  6. For those who value words: Tell them why you like/love them
  7. For those who value physical touch: Utilize hug emojis 
  8. For those who value physical touch: Give a video chat hug
  9. For those who value physical touch: Request someone in their home give them a hug for you
  10. For those who value physical touch: Send them a "rain check" for future hugs
  11. For those who value physical touch: Encourage them to give themselves a hug/pat on the back from you
  12. For those who value time spent with them: video chat with them
  13. For those who value time spent with them: connect with them daily
  14. For those who value time spent with them: find activities you can still do together via the internet
  15. For those who value time spent with them: eat a meal together over video chat
  16. For those who value time spent with them: revisit previously mentioned topics to show you were listening
  17. For those who value gifts: make them a bookmark and mail it to them
  18. For those who value gifts: order something online to send to them
  19. For those who value gifts: give them a gift card to a restaurant
  20. For those who value gifts: give them a coupon book of ways to stay in touch
  21. For those who value gifts: give them a gift card to a grocery store
  22. For those who value service and work: ask if you can pick anything up for them
  23. For those who value service and work: ask if you can do a virtual task for them
  24. For those who value service and work: ask if you can send a card they've been meaning to send
  25. For those who value service and work: remind them that you'd like to be helping them even though you can't go over to their house right now
  26. For those who value service and work: ask what you can help them with after social distancing has ended
  27. Have them take a Myers-Briggs test online and send you their results. 
  28. Ask how you can best love them as an introvert or extrovert (where they focus their attention)
  29. Ask how you can best love them as a sensor or intuitive (how they take in information)
  30. Ask how you can best love them as a thinker or feeler (how they make decisions)
  31. Ask how you can best love them as a judger or perceiver (how they deal with the world) 
  32. Research more ideas for their specific love language or Myers-Briggs results and plan more specific ways to show them love.

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