Heavy Love Affair

Infobox Single
Name = Heavy Love Affair
Artist = Marvin Gaye
Album = In Our Lifetime
Type = 7" single
Released = 1981
Recorded = 1980, Air Studios, London, England
Length = 3:45
Genre = Funk, soul
Label = Tamla
Writer = Marvin Gaye
Producer = Marvin Gaye
Last single = "Praise"
(1981)
This single = "Heavy Love Affair"
(1981)
Next single = "Sexual Healing"
(1982)

"Heavy Love Affair" is a funk song recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released as the second and last single off Gaye's last Motown album, "In Our Lifetime", in 1981, the song was based on Gaye's real-life emotional crisis after being separated from his wife at the time, Janis Gaye. In some parts of the song, Gaye knows that he's a major female attraction but still feels the warmth of his lost love saying "lots of ladies love me/but I'm still alone sometime" bringing that point clearer in the next verse saying "you got me looking for love (again)". The song became one of his lowest-charted Billboard hits on the R&B side reaching just #61 there becoming the final release of Gaye's on the Tamla (Motown) label before he left the label for Columbia the next year. The musical background of this song originally came from the song, "Life's a Game of Give and Take" from Marvin's aborted 1979 release, "Love Man"