I don't know if this is what you have in mind, but to me, these poems have very smiliar themes. They are both about how true love does not try to force the loved one to be some certain way.
In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare talks about how love does not seek to alter the person it loves. It says that love does not really care about what the person looks like -- because that changes over time.
In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare is talking about the imperfections in his love. He is rejecting the idea that one's love must be perfect (sort of like how people today should reject the idea that women must all look like supermodels). Instead, he is saying that she is just as lovable as someone else who (people say) is perfect.
So both poems are about true love being happy with what it finds -- not wanting a perfect lover.
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