Face Value - by harpriya - cloudless sundays
As long as neither party talks about it, anything goes. There aren’t any real rules. It’s chaos. Words as a primary communication tool forces you to take all that is spoken at face value.
Much like the Myers Briggs personality test, there exists a quiz called the “5 Love Languages”. It was created by psychologist Gary Chapman who conducted studies to find effective ways to communicate in intimate relationships based on each individual’s self regulatory behaviors. I make the analogy of this quiz to the Myers Briggs personality test because I feel both have the power to reveal something about ourselves, whether it’s the way we act or think on instinct, or how we believe we act or think on instinct. The labels these quizzes or tests output do not define us as people. They…
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