No. She liked him, she didn't love him. She was ticked off at him at the time of her death for not supporting the release of her solo album in 1980, which was not released until 1996, 13 years after Karen died.
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Karen Carpenter often said, and there is written evidence to support this, that her favorite Carpenters' song was: "I Need To Be In Love". It was written and recorded in 1976, it was one of the songs on the "A Kind Of Hush" album, and there is a music video that uses it that shows Karen and Richard taking a plane and looking for love, but, not finding it.
Karen is my mom and dad and step aunt and step sis she is my everything I love me some Karen
no he doesnt care about her
She married real estate developer Thomas James Burris. At the time they met, Burris was 39 years old and divorced with an 18-year-old son named Mike. Carpenter was 30 years old. The couple were married at the Beverly Hills Hotel in the Crystal Room. A new song performed by Carpenter at the ceremony, "Because We Are In Love," was released in 1981. The couple went to Bora Bora for their honeymoon. Carpenter called her family from the island and described it as "Boring Boring." The marriage became a disaster, and they filed for divorce in November of 1981. The divorce was to be finalized on the day Carpenter passed away, so she died a married woman. After going out with Carpenter's parents to celebrate her father's birthday. She and Burris returned to the Carpenters' Downey home and after a brief argument, Burris told her parents, "You can keep her!" Carpenter never saw her husband again after that night.Source: Answers.com
Tony Peluso played the fuzz guitar on "Goodbye To Love". The title came from a Bing Crosby movie, Rhythm on the River, but no such song appeared in the movie; it was only referenced in the story. Richard Carpenter (and also John Bettis) imagined what such a song might sound like, and wrote from that.