You Taught Me To Call It Love - Mp3
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Theme:
Shared Accountability, Emotional Infidelity & Refusing to Rewrite a Love That Was Made to Feel Real
Description: 6:48
“You Taught Me To Call It Love” is about looking back at a relationship that crossed the boundaries of friendship and acknowledging the responsibility of both people involved. The narrator does not excuse her own choices. She recognizes that she knew there was a marriage, crossed a line, and must take responsibility for her part. But accepting her own accountability does not mean accepting responsibility for his choices as well.
At the heart of the song is the contradiction between being taught to believe the relationship was love and later being told it was only friendship. Through flirting, intimate and sexual conversations, emotional closeness, and words that encouraged deeper feelings, a boundary was crossed—even though much of it happened through a screen. The song insists that distance does not automatically make emotional or sexual intimacy meaningless.
The lyrics also consider the wife without claiming to know what she thinks or feels. Instead, they raise a question about honesty and informed choice within a marriage: when important truths are withheld, the person who does not know them cannot decide what those truths mean for their own relationship.
A major distinction in the song is between apology and accountability. Saying sorry acknowledges hurt, but accountability requires something more—recognizing one's own actions, understanding their effect on another person, and allowing that understanding to influence what happens next.
Ultimately, this is not a song asking him to return, leave his marriage, or choose the narrator. She has already chosen to move forward and can place the man she once loved in the past without pretending that love never existed.
The central message: “I will own the choices that were mine, but I will not carry yours. You taught me to believe what existed between us was love, and moving forward requires honesty about the part each of us played in creating it.”