On "My Little Love," Adele speaks directly to her son, Angelo, in a series of lines on the song's bridge. "Tell me you love me," she says to him, while he responds, "I love you a million percent." In one heartbreaking passage, Adele explains, "Mummy's been having a lot of big feelings recently." "Like how?" Angelo questions. " ... I feel a bit confused," she responds, while attempting to untangle her complicated feelings about his father. "I love your dad because he gave you to me," she sings, which she expanded upon further to Vogue. "I do love your dad. I'm just not in love," she'd tell him. "I can't make that make sense to a 9-year-old."
While she can't sing the song from his perspective, Adele knew she needed to tell his side of the story through herself. "While I was writing it, I just remember thinking of any child that's been through divorce or any person that has been through a divorce themselves or anyone that wants to leave a relationship and never will," she told Zane Lowe during an Apple Music interview. "I thought about all of them, because my divorce really humanized my [divorced] parents for me," she said, adding that writing it helped her connect further with her son. "I feel like it was important for me to tell Angelo's story and be like, it was hard and I wasn't doing a very good job at the most wild moment of his life probably."
