Snow-thrower sex!

Interesting subject, eh? Do I have your attention?

If my wife knew I was writing this, I'd be sentenced to the tool shed in the back yard for ever. But here goes .....

As you've read on GT, Dr. Gary Chapman, our good friend and author of numerous marriage books (Five Love Languages), writes about and challenges us to speak our spouse's love languages instead of our own. Briefly, they are: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service and physical touch.

Dr. C says, "We must learn our Spouse's primary love language if we are to be effective communicators of love" (from Your Gift of Love).

Erika's primary love language is acts of service. If I do something for her that resonates with her character traits of being highly organized, neat and orderly, the end result is that she benefits and so do I!

For example, she loves to have a neatly a shoveled or swept driveway after any amount of snow has fallen. And ... she loves it even more when I do that without her asking!

Mama didn't raise no fool!

At the first sign of any snow accumulation, I'm out there with broom, shovel or snow-thrower doing my thing (or her thing). Did I mention that it also benefits me to do that act of service? I can't explain why she reacts the way she does when I "communicate" that primary love language of hers, but the reward is incredibly fulfilling to me!

Who would have thought that my investment in a 10 H.P. MTD snow-thrower would actually help me to speak my wife's primary love language?

So here the deal, look over the five love languages again as presented in this article of our interview with Dr. Gary Chapman and then be creative in using things in your home to help speak your spouse's love language, too.

Oh, one last thing - my neighbors just can't understand why I use my snow-thower on the driveway several times in July!!