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What's your love language - and does it actually mean anything?

I'm "words of affirmation", and so is my husband. This is supposedly our shared love language.

But, while we do like receiving compliments, they make us both feel a bit awkward.

Despite this, our result was confidently defined when we took the original Love Languages Quiz online, a personality test published by US pastor Gary Chapman who first came up with the five types of expressing and receiving love in 1992.

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