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Pete Markenstein
Together
Alone like to write songs about like to think of it as an
life’s ups and downs, highs
a periodicrelationship
I and lows, adventures and opportunity for everyone to do
toils… subjects everyone can “reboot.” It’s the one day a
relate to in one way or year that’s literally all about
another. celebrating the emotional
connections between people.
One of the most universally
relatable themes in almost all “Together Alone” is intended
forms of entertainment, to be a light-hearted reminder
musical and otherwise, is that to couples young and old that
which Rupert Holmes if you’re sharing your life with
memorialized so indelibly in another person, no matter
the People’s Choice Award’s where you are on that path,
Favorite New Song of 1979, it’s important to regularly put
“The Pina Colada Song.” It time aside for just the two of
recounts the inevitable you.
relationship journey of
so many couples for whom, Though there’s an
over time, complacency unmistakable reference to
replace the more intense the continuing mportance of
connection between the two physical closeness in
of them that was there when committed relationships, the
their romance was young and larger message of the song is
new. that the real key to
relationship endurance
Most of the time, that waning throughout all the challenges
of emotional intensity isn’t the life throws at you is simply
result of anything intentional, this:
overt or dramatic. It’s simply
the product of comfort, Treat your most important
familiarity, and security—all of relationship as an ongoing
which are good. The problem journey… one with the
is that’s it’s justhuman nature unwavering objective of
to invest more time and ener- seeking out and treasuring
gy on things that need to be every opportunity to be in the
fixed than on things that are… moment together where ever
well… “just fine.” you encounter joy and
happiness along the way.
While there’s no shortage of
folks who pooh pooh Happy Valentine’s Day, to one
Valentine’s Day as just and all.
another made up holiday
intended to boost the sales of Check out this link for video to
candy and greeting cards, I song....
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