What Is Your Love-Philosophy?
“Every minute, every hour I'm gonna shower you with love and affection Look out, it's comin' in your direction and I'm I'm gonna make you love me Oh, yes I will, yes I will I'm gonna make you love me Oh, yes I will, yes I will.” I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff & Jerry Ross) Performed by The Supremes & The Tempations I remember the days long ago when “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” was not only my theme song, but my daily mantra. After all, there had to be some unsuspecting fool out there who I could shower with love and affection enough to make them love me. And, of course, I thought that in the process, as long as they were having to love me for all I did for them, they’d have to let me rearrange them and make them into who I really wanted them to be, too. So I tried and tried through caretaking and people-pleasing to make people love me, but it never worked. Every person I took emotionally h...