I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting

that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

I could touch but never hold.

Hi, everybody.

This is Veronica Valley.

And this is Chip Summers.

Welcome back to the Soberfall podcast.

Chip and I are both people in long-term recovery from alcohol and all sorts of

substances. And we have a free Facebook group called Soberful, where you can check in with us and ask us

questions and get some support and learn about the Soberful program. You can find us on

Instagram at Love Soberfall. And if you would like to

give us a rating on iTunes, that would be great too. We've had a couple of weeks of talking about

sex. We have. In many different forms. Yeah, I enjoyed those weeks. So we thought we should talk

about love, especially as this episode is going to go out the day before Valentine's Day, right? Yeah. Love in all its forms. We've done an episode on Relationships, so you might want to check that one out as well, relationships and a recovery. But we're going to talk about love, all kinds of love, not just love for partners. Just love. All you need is love. So they say. Yeah. Shopkeepers get a bit

arsey when you just say, look, I love you. Could I take the sweater away, please? They seem to think

love is not quite enough under those circumstances. But yeah, I get the principle. If you think every

song, nearly every song, movie, it's all about love, not having love, finding love,

is this the right love? Love has left me, I have no love, right? Yeah. It's all about that.

It's like the point of everything, but I don't know, we don't value it always. I don't know.

It's so hard, right? Love is so hard.

It's very difficult. It is very difficult. And yet it's something that we all crave.

Yeah. It's sustaining. We can't live without it.

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