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If your spouse’s primary love language is receiving gifts,
you can become a proficient gift giver. In fact, it is one of
the easiest love languages to learn.

Gifts may be purchased, found, or made. The husband
who stops along the roadside and picks his wife a
wildflower has found himself an expression of love, unless,
of course, his wife is allergic to wildflowers. For the man
who can afford it, you can purchase a beautiful card for less
than five dollars. For the man who cannot, you can make
one for free. Get the paper out of the trash can where you
work, fold it in the middle, take scissors and cut out a heart,
write “I love you,” and sign your name. Gifts need not be
expensive.
But what of the person who says, “I’m not a gift giver. I
didn’t receive many gifts growing up. I never learned how to
select gifts. It doesn’t come naturally for me.”
Congratulations, you have just made the first discovery in
becoming a great lover. You and your spouse speak
different love languages. Now that you have made that
discovery, get on with the business of learning your second
language. If your spouse’s primary love language is
receiving gifts, you can become a proficient gift giver. In
fact, it is one of the easiest love languages to learn.
Where do you begin? Make a list of all the gifts your