One Key to Love — Differentiating Needs, Wants, and Desire

Words to help you know how you really feel

Editor’s Note: From the Flavors of Love Series of Essays

An eloquence of the heart can change a man’s life. Words help define and clarify his feelings. They direct his thought. They open him to emotional experiences that were unavailable without them.

I learned this through the journey of my own life in which a kind of emotional eloquence helped me break …