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Are Your Love Languages What You DIDN’T Receive From One Parent?

ByJennifer Nurick
Are your love languages what you DIDN’T receive from one parent

60% of you said that your love language was what you DIDN’T receive from your parents as a child (from 120 people on Instagram).

I form part of the 40% who said it IS what they received as a child. Then I thought about it deeper. Did I receive my love languages from BOTH parents? No. The parent I struggled the most with didn’t give me the words of affirmation and physical touch that I would have liked. 

Perhaps the inner child part of me is still craving from my partner the love languages that she didn’t receive from that parent?

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Jennifer Nurick is a Master's-qualified Clinical Psychotherapist, attachment and trauma therapist and couples therapist with over 20 years in private practice. She helps adults and couples heal anxious and avoidant attachment, childhood trauma and recurring relationship patterns, drawing on IFS, EMDR and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Jennifer is the author of Heal Your Anxious Attachment (New Harbinger), host of the Psychotherapy Central Podcast and founder of Psychotherapy Central.

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2 Comments

    1. Great Question! We normally have 1 or 2 love languages that resonate the most, however, some people may have more or less, and for some, it may change, experiences change us.

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