When partners are in synch and learning/growing together, love can be great.
All This Love – Patti Labelle
Lyric Snippet
After all I went and put myself through,
I found out all I needed was you.
Sometimes you meet the right person at the right time, the stars align and boom! (Even those relationships take work, but it’s more like cultivating a garden than navigating a minefield.)
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You’re All I Need To Get By – Aretha Franklin
Lyric Snippet
As long as I got you then baby
You know that you’ve got me oh
‘Cause we’ve got our love in some
R E S P E C T oh
Because, for all the proclamations and exclamations you make to each other, love mutates into something soul sapping/spirit crushing when it’s not grounded in mutual respect.
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Whatever – Jill Scott
Lyric Snippet
I made a vow to you
Everything I do for you is a joy and a gift
You got my whole life lifted
That moment when you see your love and all the frustrations of the day just melt away? Priceless.
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Because love has the potential to be awesome, we’re drawn to it again and again.
*I know Patti and Aretha weren’t the original artists–I just prefer their versions.
Tawanna Sullivan 