Freedom: a Love Language 🕊️
It doesn't matter who you're dating or married to, if you don't feel empowered to spread your wings and fly, chances are that you're in an uninspiring relationship. Freedom (feeling trusted & supported by your partner) is a love language that shouldn’t be overlooked when making relationship decisions.
The ability to fly comes with freedom. Flying involves a lot of hard-work that can be physically, mentally, emotionally and financially draining. That’s why having a partner who encourages you to walk-run-fly in every area of your life, is priceless, and having someone (being someone) who inspires their partner to go all out for their dreams, is beautiful. When eagles 🦅 reach certain heights in the sky, they stop flying (using their strength to flap their wings) and begin to soar (taking advantage of the wind beneath their wings to glide through the air).
Personally, I want to be that friend and husband who helps my partner soar to greater heights, everyday. I want to be the wind beneath her wings, the breath of fresh air in her lungs and her biggest & loudest cheerleader. I want my partner to be as free as the wind — to achieve all her goals & aspirations, knowing that I'll always be eager to support her dreams in all seasons.
Freedom isn't a license to dishonor or misbehave, but a responsibility to live richly, adding value to others and building capacity, while developing character. In our quest to express true love as Christ teaches us to, giving our partners the freedom, honour, respect, support & attention they need to succeed, weighs more than a billion tons of gold in the grand scale of things. Freedom is an essential component of love, whose voice is oftentimes drowned by selfish, insecure, bitter, prideful & jealous partners. Freedom shouldn't have to be a negotiable in any relationship. Freedom should be part and parcel of the basic fundamentals of every Believer's love-walk.
- With Love, From Love 🤗
I really want to be this kind of partner too. One who supports her partner and who is available too in every way. This is one thing I’m very conscious about “How can I support His dreams and help him grow”. Because I really want someone to do same for me.
Many people only make promises of how they will support and never be a hindrance to my dreams but what about being available for all the things in between and then never care about what these dreams are. So whenever I meet someone and I see how he’s not interested in the things I consider important, I run. 😪
Really, freedom is beyond letting one fly, it’s feeling trusted and supported. This is definitely a love language. Thank you for sharing.
You know, this was one thing I kinda worried about. Seeing women just not maximising their potentials because there was no support from their partners.
But, knowing that Abba will provide the right person for me who will wholly support all that He would have me do and would allow me be free to accomplish my goals, I found rest.
Thank you for this letter. It just reinforces the mindset for me, that I will have the right person. Together, we will achieve purpose, supporting each other to the best of our abilities, all without compromising on maintaining the home front.