// BBC HEALTH NEWS — SALUTE
What's your love language - and does it actually mean anything?
Despite only being on their second date, this couple had already discussed love languages
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.
I'm sceptical. Does the theory really know more about us than our own lived experience of a 10-year marriage?
The five love languages are: Quality Time, Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Receiving Gifts, and Physical Touch - and they feel more ubiquitous than ever.
Contestants on dating shows ask each other their love languages; "My love language is…" is a common prompt on dating apps.
According to the Love Languages website, my husband and I are just two out of more than 150 million people to have taken this particular quiz.
Even though we scored much lower on some of the other languages, they speak more directly to us.
For example I love spending "quality time" with my husband, and feel much more loved by him making lists of films to watch with me than when he pays me a compliment.