You need to learn your partner's love language

Yang Yang, a Shanghai resident who had premarital counseling with her fiance in 2013

We had known each other for three years and thought we knew each other fairly well. Surprisingly, the premarital counseling lifted our mutual understanding to new heights, and we learned new ways of communicating that we believe will benefit us for a lifetime.

Through the sessions we got to know that there are five ways of expressing love: affirmative words, quality time, giving gifts, acts of service and physical touch. However, everybody expresses their love in different ways, and the way you do so may not be what your partner prefers.