Love Notes – Episode 16: When Love Stops Feeling Like Work

In this episode of Love Notes, Allie Theiss explores a quiet but powerful shift in relationships — the moment love stops feeling like labor.

This episode is devoted to ease, reciprocity, emotional safety, and the relief that comes when connection no longer requires managing, proving, or carrying everything alone. Through poetry, brand-new listener dedications, music spanning generations, a fresh Desire Drop™, and a Soulful Connections teaching, listeners are invited to recalibrate what healthy, sustainable love actually feels like.

If you’ve ever believed love had to be hard to be real, this episode gently challenges that story.

💖 Inside This Episode

🌹 Opening + Poem

A reflective opening and poem from Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, honoring love that doesn’t require shrinking, performing, or apologizing for depth.

💌 Dedications

1. A realization from Oregon about shared emotional effort
2. A reflection from Minnesota on affection that doesn’t need to be earned
3. A grounding message from Washington about being listened to without being fixed
4. A steady, reassuring dedication from Virginia honoring love that feels like home

🎶 Featured Songs

1. True Colors
2. Better
3. Fields of Gold
4. You’re My Home

📚 Romance Book Spotlight

Seven Days in June

Published June 1, 2021

A passionate, emotionally mature romance about history, healing, and what love can look like after growth.

🔥 Desire Drop™ — The Relief Response

A new desire practice focused on recognizing attraction through calm, steadiness, and nervous-system relief rather than intensity or anxiety.

🔮 Soulful Connections — Love Without Labor

A mini teaching and meditation exploring what changes when effort becomes mutual — and how love shifts when you stop managing connection alone.

🎬 Romantic Movie Spotlight

Enough Said

A tender, honest look at connection, vulnerability, and love that doesn’t require drama to be meaningful.

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