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The article discusses the kind of love described in Zora Neale Hurston's book "Their Eyes Were Watching God." It asserts that protagonist Janie Crawford loves her husband Tea Cake as both a wife and mother in her attempt to manage and cope with the vicious connection of violence and Black motherhood. It cites several textual indications that the relationship shared between Janie and Tea Cake is fraught with a mother-son dynamic.