I think acts of service is more accurate, since there isn’t a physical “gift” and you’re doing the service.. to expand, while yes it could be “a gift” to cook for someone or clean their house or run their errands, it’s not a tangible object that is kept or an experience or service done by someone else. So for example if you hire a cleaner instead of cleaning for them yourself, then yes it’d be a gift because you didn’t do it yourself. Now cooking although you do give them an “object” (the

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I think acts of service. That’s my #1 giving love language and cooking is my favorite act of service to give💕

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It might depend on the intention in my opinion. If you are cooking something for someone bc they are super tired/ hate cooking/ like when others cook for them then it would be an act of service. If you are cooking for them in order to give them a certain kind of food they like, then it would be gift giving (the focus is on end result rather than process)

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Cooking for others is Acts of service, you are doing it with intent to serve and provide something for them out of multiple actions not just bringing food. Buying food or like if you randomly decide to bring someone food is a gift. In my opinion.

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Service

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I’d say that it depends. If you baked a cake and gave it to someone, I’d say that’s a gift. However, if you cooked dinner for someone, I’d say that would be a service.

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acts if service for sure. it would be gift giving if you just went and bought someone’s food because you knew they liked it versus the act of actually cooking the food for them

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Yes as everybody else is saying and as somebody that uses cooking as a streamline way to show affection, I'd also say acts of service

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Does it fucking matter

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