While flipping through some late night television, I came across "Clean House: Search for the Messiest House in the Country 4". Now, without getting into a rant about how people could let their house get so full of "stuff" (let alone letting it be broadcast to the world), I want to touch on one of their underlying issues. The dad traveled a lot with his job, and every time he came back, he brought his family gifts to show them that he loved them and thought of them often when he was away. These gifts were contributing to a huge clutter problem and many gifts had never even been opened. The family was disconnected, because the wife and children really just wanted to spend time with the dad, who had to keep working more to buy more gifts... do you see the problem? This whole situation took me back to a book I read many years ago, "The 5 Love Languages" by Dr. Gary Chapman. According to Chapman, the 5 are: Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Quality ...
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