9 Tips for Making Everyday Conversations With Your Partner Feel Fresh Again

The 2 New Love Languages

Shared Experiences

If you’re the kind of person who can’t help but send out a shared calendar for you and your partner (Or even your friends!), this may be the love language for you. Shared experiences is all about creating deep-rooted bonds, which differs from quality time, as QT focuses on new, intentional experiences. As it turns out, 38% of survey participants ranked shared experiences #1, noting that they prefer to love and give love by creating shared memories with their significant other.

Signs This Might Be Your Love Language:

• You’re always down for a group project.
• You prefer having someone join you on your weekly Target trip rather than go alone.
• You feel closer to your partner after going to Book Club together.
• Making new memories is your ideal way to spend time.
• You’d rather be doing something with your partner than sitting on the couch.

Emotional Security

If you'd rather have deep pillowtalk than Netflix and chill with your S.O., then your love language might be emotional security. Rooted in conversation, emotional security happens when a person feels safe, seen and secure for being their authentic self. Typically, people who crave emotional security want to extract the why during conversations – AKA they tend to dig a bit deeper than surface level. If this sounds like you, once your partner starts asking (and answering) the “whys,” you probably feel a stronger connection.

Signs This Might Be Your Love Language:

• You feel closest to your partner when they share their dreams, fears and past.
• You like asking a lot of questions. Like a lot.
• You think deeply and listen intentionally.
• The “scary” conversations don’t scare you at all.
• You don’t mind sharing how you feel, even if it’s awkward.

If these don’t hit home, though, maybe your love language(s) is one of the OG options. Keep reading for a quick breakdown of the five initial love languages (that are still very relevant today).

The 5 Original Love Languages

Words of Affirmation

People with this love language value verbal acknowledgments of affection, including frequent "I love you's," compliments, words of appreciation, verbal encouragement, and even digital communication like texting and social media engagement.

Quality Time

If you’re all about QT, then you feel the most adored when your partner actively wants to spend time with you. These people particularly love when active listening, eye contact and full presence are prioritized in the relationship.

Receiving Gifts

This one is pretty straightforward: you feel loved when people give you visual symbols of love. Often confused with materialism, it’s not about the extravagance of the gift at all, but rather the symbolic thought behind the item. People with this style recognize and value the gift-giving process: the careful reflection, the deliberate choosing of the object to represent the relationship, and the emotional benefits from receiving the present.

Acts of Service

If your love language is acts of service, you value when your partner goes out of their way to make your life easier. Little things like making you coffee in the morning, starting your car in the winter so it heats up or doing the laundry unprompted.

Physical Touch

People with physical touch as their love language feel loved when they receive physical signs of affection, including kissing, holding hands, cuddling and sex. Physical intimacy and touch can be incredibly affirming and serve as a powerful emotional connector for people with this love language.

Somehow Scandoval keeps getting worse, with Madix confirming the rumor that Sandoval and Leviss slept together in Madix and Sandoval’s home while she was asleep.

"They had sex in my guest room while I was sleeping in my own bed that he and I went to bed in together and then he left the bed and went to the guest room and f—ked her," Madix told podcast host Alex Cooper.

Cooper asked Madix if she potentially “turned a blind eye” to the questionable relationship between her co-stars prior to the months-long affair being revealed, to which she promptly responded, “yes.” According to Madix, Sandoval used friends’ credit cards to fly Leviss out places amongst other behavior aimed to deceive her and mask his new relationship.

"Everything was coming before me and before the relationship,” Madix shared. "I felt like he was not choosing me over, like, random nights out…or he would want to be at Schwartz's for no reason.”

"Well now you know why,” Cooper quipped back, to which Madix agreed.

Despite Sandoval’s claims on Vanderpump Rules and in the media, Madix shared how the pair continued to work on their relationship, with Sandoval even saying it was getting better. In fact, the couples counseling was even his idea, and a “plan” to end their decade-long relationship. But as far as Madix is concerned, Sandoval never made any insinuations that he wanted to end their relationship.

"[Tom] even said, 'Oh, we went to couple's therapy and our relationship got so much better,’" she recalled. "I love my Dad, but growing up my Dad didn't come home after work and stuff…going back and looking at it, a lot of times I did those things because I wanted people to be like, 'I'll be there'...So, I thought, like, if I could be the perfect girlfriend…they'll come home, they'll want to be around me, and I'll be enough."

“But were you truly happy in this relationship,” Cooper asked.

“I don’t know,” Madix responded. “I think I was a version of happy I thought was what I wanted. And I also felt like the bones of the relationship were good, and I felt as though the potential for the relationship to be incredible.”

In the season 10 finale of Vanderpump Rules, which aired last week, Madix also alleged that, the night the affair began, Sandoval and Leviss slept together in a parked car in her driveway.

"And he didn't have a key to get in, so he had to ring the doorbell, and I had to let him in," she said.

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Attendees are welcome to explore Rao’s late-night style pizza counter, embrace fun photo-ops, check out the luxury sauce jar handbags, and shop new Rao’s sauces and simmering soups at a dedicated sauce flight bar and soup station.

What’s more is Rao’s stan and fellow foodie, Kristin Cavallari will be on-site at the pop-up to meet fans and share her love for Rao’s with a delicious Baked Penne dish!

Rao's New Pasta Sauces and Soups

The all-new sauce and soup lineup from Rao's features a Caramelized Onion, Vodka Arrabbiata, and Pizza Arrabbiata sauces, as well as an Italian-Style Lentil Soup and Butternut Squash flavor.

The Caramelized Onion pasta sauce was crafted with sweet caramelized onions, and slow-simmered with Italian tomatoes for depth in flavor. Vodka Arrabbiata features a rich blend of Italian tomatoes, Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino Romano cheeses – and of course, a splash of vodka to complement the heat from crushed red peppers. The Pizza Arrabbiata jar was made for slathering pizza dough, and offers a tasty combo of Italian and cherry tomatoes and crushed red pepper.

You'll get a savory mouthful of chicken broth and sautéed vegetables with the Italian-Style Lentil Soup. Herby spices and roasted red pepper join in on the flavor fun, too! Finally, the Butternut Squash Soup heralds a velvety texture alongside sweet squash – the ultimate warming dish.