You also should take into consideration her love language as well as telling her what your love language is. If you don’t know your love language, then take the love language quiz here (and have him do the same)!
A lot of times, both males and females tend to try to love each other with their own love language and not that of their partner. We need to help each other by explaining to them what our love languages are, then we will be better equipped to know how to show each other love.
Here's a great video that shows what happens when both people in the relationship are using their own love language with their partner (instead of figuring out and using their partner's love language).