Jason Michael Carroll’s mother would tell he, his brother, and his sister, “I love you” with a natural response being “I love you too, Momma”. His Mom would always follow that up with “I love you More”. Jason’s brother and sister would play along in a game of “back and forth” with “I Love you More” needing with “we both love each other the same”.
When his Mom would say “I Love You More” to Jason, he would always reply “Nope”. Michele, Jason’s friend that ‘though she wrote a song’ had a similar game she and her husband would play with their grandkids.
Michele said can help me turn this idea into a song. Jason said sure and was surprised to open his email and find 8 pages of “the song”. He called Michele back and laughingly said “that’s going to be a really long song”.
They widdled down the thoughts and what was left was a simple and heartfelt message of thankfulness and gratitude to someone’s partner who been through the ups and downs, the struggles, the highs and lows, the good times and the bad.
In Jason’s case, it’s a message to Wendy, a “thank you” for believing that there was a good man inside of the person who was not always acting or showing it. Addiction and recovery are not easy to go through, especially when you aren’t the one with the addiction. “She is always working to make me a better person even when I didn’t deserve that kind of patience, kindness or love”, says Jason. “She (Wendy) is the best person I know”.
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