The Weakness In Me

I like the Melissa Etheridge cover better. But the meaning is the same anyway.

I feel it is about someone who is in love with two people. Two lesbians sang this song, so I always imagine it is about someone loving two women and having a difficult time choosing between them. It fits me very well, at least it used to.

I was in love with my wife but also very much in love with a long term friend.

I met this other woman when she was separated. I was single but she wanted to work on her marriage. She told me to move on, so I did. I met someone and we were together for 5 months before this other woman moved out of state and had a baby. They had not met each other yet. When this other woman came back to town to visit me and let me meet her daughter, I took my soon to be wife with me as well as my 16 yo daughter. Once we left, my daughter stuck her head between the seats of my van and asked my soon to be wife, "did you see that?" My soon to be wife said "yes I did" and I saw tears in her eyes. I asked what they were talking about and my daughter said the love between me and this other woman, they could see it in the way we looked at each other. I blew it off, downplayed it, but I knew what they were talking about.

I got married and my wife left me after 10 months for another man. She always said that I loved this other woman more than I loved her. Honestly, I loved them both

I feel the passion in this song, the pain and suffering of wanting to love both of these women, and having to pick one.

It has been 5 years and this other woman is not in my life anymore but my current fiancee says she is worried she will lose me if this woman ever comes back into my life. It scares me too. It may return me to feeling the way this song portrays. How do you get over a love that is so profound?