Reflection Paper About Love

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Love is a complicated and interesting all at the same time. Love is has been pretty amazing this week reading about the different aspects of communication in relationships. Everyone needs to be loved whether they realize it or not. We have love all around us from our families, friends, and romantic partners. Different people love and communicate in different ways. Some people feel marriage is important in their lives and others don’t. “Committed romantic relationships are created and sustained by unique people who cannot be replaced” (Wood, 2016, p. 309). This is how I feel about my husband and for me marriage is an important part of our romantic relationship. According to Gary Chapman (2016), everyone has a love language and by knowing your …show more content…
I feel that it is important to express with words how I feel about someone. I feel this way, especially with my family. It’s imperative in my relationships to tell and hear that we love each other. Having my husband and kids tell me that they love me makes my days brighter. I think communication is important in any relationship, but it is essential in a romantic relationship which is in my case is my marriage. When someone that I care about says something hurtful to me, I carry this with me like a ton of bricks and it is hard for me to get over. My husband has realized this over the years and really thinks about what he says to me before he says things to me when we are arguing. This is another way that I know he loves me because he cares about my feelings and doesn’t want to hurt …show more content…
This makes complete sense to me because he and I have a lot in common. This is a good thing because we are married and have three children. Sometimes I feel we are the same person, as an example, out of the blue I will try to call him and his phone will be busy because he is calling me at the same time. This doesn’t happen every once in a while, this happens two to three times a week. He will ask me something and I will be thinking the same thing. Neither one of us require presents to know we are loved. We don’t celebrate birthdays or holidays with presents for each other and never have since we have been married. Being together and spending quality time together as a family is more important than what you

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