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Does "all this love is suffocating" has the same meaning as "all this love is making me sick"?

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Rebecca

"All this love is suffocating" has a meaning closer to "all this love is making it hard to breathe," as to suffocate means to be unable to breathe. The lyrics are alluding to emotional suffocation here, so we can assume it means that the person might feel trapped or oppressed by love. Ex: My relationship made me feel suffocated and trapped, so I had to end it. Ex: I had to move out because living with my family was suffocating.

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