Speaking Love

 Speaking Love

My Dear, 

Love is a language. 

It exists only when it is communicated. We cannot hold love in isolation and expect it to be understood. Love is expressed, shown, and shared. In many ways, we do not simply "feel" love — we speak it. Care, affection, consideration, patience, attraction, intimacy, irritation, anger, and even silence are all parts of its vocabulary. 

But we may speak and understand this language differently. 

Sometimes, no matter how deeply we love each other, it may not be felt. Not because love is absent, but because the language is unfamiliar. One person may express love through words, another through presence, sacrifice, protection, touch, or quiet understanding. If we do not understand each other’s vocabulary, the love is lost somewhere along the way. Sometimes we do not recognise the love that is there, simply because we are listening for a different language. 

Love is never a one-way act. It is a two-way process of speaking, listening, and understanding. Just as any language can be misunderstood, love can be misunderstood, too. Words can be misheard. Silence can be misread. Care can appear controlling. Distance can seem uncaring. Even genuine love can fail when communication fails. Communication is not separate from love. It is the space through which our different emotional languages can be understood. 

And it is more beautiful when we are both willing to learn from and adapt to each other’s... rather than naturally speaking the same language. 

After all, we can love. 

But love, when it is truly felt — that is an art. 

                                                                                                                                                     With love,