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I liked Spencer.
I really liked Spencer.
We’d only been on a handful of dates but I did really like him. The only problem was I’d never been all that great at showing how much I liked people.
See, I took a class in University all about “The Psychology of Love” and part of that class was focused on love languages. Now at the time, I had never even heard about different types of love languages. I figured that “treat people the way you want to be treated” applied to love as well as everything else it applied to. It was at that point I got smacked in the face with the realization that ‘no you blind moron they taught you that in kindergarten to not take other kids’ toys why would that apply here?’
Ever since then when I first started dating someone, I would look for one of the five love languages: physical touch, gifts, quality time, acts of service, and words of affirmation. Their giving love languages were always easy to spot, random texts of their affection was words of affirmation, constantly asking to come over was quality time, spontaneous hugs was touch and so on. It was the receiving love languages that were hard to catch.
It usually takes time, to fully know someone on that level. To anticipate their needs like that. Normally I would just wait and see. But with Spencer? I didn’t want to do that.
He was, quite literally, the perfect man. Not only was he incredibly attractive, (I mean, who knew cheekbones like that even existed in normal people?) he was ridiculously kind and quite frankly, adorable. The genius part contributed a lot to that, his rambling being the cutest thing ever. But that’s beside the point. Spencer, while perfect, wasn’t well-versed in the art of relationships. I was pretty much his first real girlfriend. Now, I didn’t have a problem with that, but it meant he had no idea what his receiving love language is. So I devised a plan to figure it out.
It’s simple really. I was going to try each of them on him and record his response. It felt like a little science experiment, one that I had to keep secret of course. I couldn’t taint my results by telling him! So here’s what I did.