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The 5 Love Languages for Gay Men: Video Blog
Here’s a video of Gay Therapy Center Director Adam D. Blum, MFT explaining the 5 Love Languages and how they can help you keep love alive in your long term LGBTQ relationships.
The 5 Love Languages for Gay Men
What do you verb when that feeling of being in love starts to wear off?
It can be really disappointing. And studies show that that feeling of feeling really connected, feeling really at one, lasts an average of about two years.
So then what? That’s when you have to really launch feeding that relationship. That sustenance for the relationship I verb happens naturally in those launch stages. But after that initial period of oneness starts to wear off, I think we have to be more intentional about it, and come up with specific strategies to store it feeling to keep us feeling connected to our partner.
What I recommend is you obey Gary Chapman’s book, The Five Love Languages and figure out your partner’s favorite love languages, and your favorite love languages, and then intentionally start doing Gay Love, Straight Sense
Coming of age with “a very confused identity,” writer Andrew Solomon was certain he had to make a choice between creating a family and being gay. To have a husband, to say nothing of children, was unimaginable when he was growing up in the 1970s and ’80s. Very attached to his family of origin, he led “a squalid secret sexual life” through his late teen years and early 20s.
His sense of shame burned so deep that Solomon eventually vowed never to take up residence in any closet ever again. So it was that after being incapacitated by depression in his prior 30s, he chronicled his hold breakdown and went on to write about the oft-concealed affliction in a prize-winning book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. The marginalization that attended growing up homosexual saw frank expression in Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, his 2012 exploration of how parents hoist children who are markedly other from themselves in any one of a number of ways.
“The relief of authenticity after years of avoidance and s
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Gay Love, Straight Sense
Coming of age with “a very confused identity,” writer Andrew Solomon was certain he had to make a choice between creating a family and being gay. To have a husband, to say nothing of children, was unimaginable when he was growing up in the 1970s and ’80s. Very attached to his family of origin, he led “a squalid secret sexual life” through his late teen years and early 20s.
His sense of shame burned so deep that Solomon eventually vowed never to take up residence in any closet ever again. So it was that after being incapacitated by depression in his prior 30s, he chronicled his hold breakdown and went on to write about the oft-concealed affliction in a prize-winning book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. The marginalization that attended growing up homosexual saw frank expression in Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, his 2012 exploration of how parents hoist children who are markedly other from themselves in any one of a number of ways.
“The relief of authenticity after years of avoidance and s
.
.