Story Behind the Song: I Still Say Yes To You

“If she had known the path ahead, would she still have said yes?”

There are moments in caregiving when a single question lands so deeply that it changes the way you see the entire journey. I Still Say Yes To You began with one of those moments.

A co‑writer came to me with an idea for a song about a relationship touched by dementia. She wondered whether her friend — if she had known the path ahead — would she still have said “yes.” It was an honest question, born out of watching someone she loved walk through a long, difficult season.

But my own experience had led me somewhere different. By that point in my caregiving journey, I had adopted a different perspective.

I had stopped seeing dementia as something that had been done to me, but as something that was done for me.

I had begun to see how it was shaping me — not gently, not easily, but profoundly. I was becoming more patient. More tolerant. More present. More willing to soften instead of harden. And that shift didn’t erase the fatigue or the grief. It didn’t make the daily decisions easier. But it reframed the way I showed up.

Caregiving became a daily yes — not a one‑time promise, not a ceremonial vow, but a choice to show love to another soul again and again, even when the path is uncertain.

Even though this song was born out of a dementia journey, the heart of it reaches far beyond that. Chronic caregiving takes many forms — a disabled child, a parent recovering from a stroke, a friend walking through cancer, a partner living with long‑term illness. Caregiving isn’t defined by vows or titles. It’s defined by choosing to show love and kindness to another soul again and again, no matter the adversity.

And that’s when I realized something important: Caregiving isn’t limited to spouses. It’s not defined by vows. It’s defined by choosing to show love and kindness to another soul — again and again — even when the path is hard.

That’s the universal truth inside I Still Say Yes To You. It widens the lens from “marriage + dementia” to any long‑term caregiving relationship:
• parent
• child
• sibling
• friend
• partner
• neighbor
• anyone whose life becomes intertwined with yours in a season of need

As we wrote the song, we shared stories, cut lines, rewrote verses, and slowly uncovered the heart of it: that love in a caregiving relationship is not defined by the past or the future, but by the choice to stay present in the moment you’re in.

I Still Say Yes To You is a song about that choice — the quiet, steady yes that keeps showing up, even when life looks nothing like you imagined.

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By now maybe you want to hear the song? You can go to YouTube to watch the lyric video, or choose your favored streaming service to hear the audio version. Released on the Capture The Moments album, you can check out the streaming links at https://jodibloom.com/music or https://linktr.ee/jodibloom

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