Many consider “receiving gifts” as the lowest tier of the five love languages, maybe because it implies favoring material things over time, words, touch, acts of service… but I tend to think of it differently. Gifts often encompass some or all of those things. But to consider it this way, you have to understand “gift” as less a thing and more an action.
In the spirit of that line of thinking, what follows is a “gifting guide” as opposed to a “gift guide” — some ideas to help us explore the verb form of “gift” and how that helps us understand “gifting” at its essence...
on gift as a verb