Love Notes – Episode 17: Choosing Emotional Truth

In this episode of Love Notes, Allie Theiss dedicates the hour to emotional truth in love — the kind of honesty that creates clarity, self-respect, and real intimacy.

This episode is for anyone who has felt the cost of staying quiet to keep the peace, softening their needs to stay connected, or performing emotional strength while feeling unseen. Through a longer poem, heartfelt listener dedications, music that honors vulnerability, a Desire Drop™ centered on honesty as attraction, and a Soulful Connections teaching on alignment, this episode explores why truth is not a threat to love — but the foundation of it.

If you’re ready to stop editing yourself in relationships, this episode invites you to choose honesty over performance and peace over pretense.

💖 Inside This Episode🌹 Opening + Poem

A reflective opening and extended poem from Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire, naming the exhaustion of silence and the freedom found in emotional honesty.

💌 Listener Dedications

1. A dedication from New Jersey about finally naming emotional needs
2. A reflection from Tennessee on choosing clarity over comfort
3. A message from Wisconsin honoring boundaries and self-truth
4. A closing dedication from California about the relief that comes with honesty

🎶 Featured Songs

1. The Story – Brandi Carlile
2. I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt
3. Everybody Hurts – R.E.M.
4. Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield

📚 Romance Book Spotlight

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Published 2003

A love story shaped by honesty, timing, and emotional integrity — even when circumstances cannot be controlled.

🔥 Desire Drop™ — Truth as Turn-On

A fresh Desire Drop™ exploring how attraction deepens when honesty replaces self-abandonment — and why being known is more intimate than being impressive.

🔮 Soulful Connections — Truth as Alignment

A mini teaching and energy practice focused on congruence — when thoughts, feelings, words, and actions align, love becomes clearer and safer.

🎬 Romantic Movie Spotlight

Blue Valentine

A raw, honest look at what happens when emotional truth is delayed — and why honesty matters before love erodes.

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