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Celine Dion’s Music Taught Me About Real Love
Before really listening to her lyrics, I thought love was a myth. But now, I know it’s real and rare!
My grandmother raised me and taught me to be a strong and independent woman. She grew up in the depression and lost her husband, my grandfather, at 52. She wanted me to be self-reliant and never depend on a man for anything, so she pushed me to get a college degree.
But the one thing she never talked about was love. She never told me how to know when you are really in love. It is a conversation I would have loved to have as a teen. It might have prevented some of my most significant relationship failures.
It wasn’t my grandma, the one who raised me, who taught me about love. It was Celine Dion.
Everything I Thought About Love Was Wrong
I graduated from high school three months before I turned 18. I thought I knew everything about life. I laugh about it often as my daughter is now three months before she turns 18. And she knows nothing about real life. I assume my grandma thought the same about me.
I met my first boyfriend in college. I never dated in high school. It wasn’t because I had no options. I was popular in school. I just didn’t want a boy to derail my educational goals.
