Transparency as a love language

We often think we protect one another by withholding information to keep someone’s feelings from being hurt.

However, all the energy we spend attempting to manage one another’s emotions could be better spent on teaching one another that we can love someone and simultaneously share information with them that they might not like. We incorrectly learned somewhere along the line that discomfort and love are mutually exclusive when, in reality, they cannot exist without each other.

Being transparent requires bringing enough light for everyone to see clearly. This means telling the truth from love for yourself and love for the other person. Helpful transparency is different than irresponsibly spewing hate on someone.

Where might a new depth of relationship be available if you practiced transparency as a love language?