A dog's love is just this.....

Oh my! This question sparks with an essence of spice and wine. Unconditional love is true love; the kind that blinds the eyes. Unconditional love is caring about the happiness of another person without any thought for what we might get for ourselves. In other words, you love deeply, clearly and without question.

I am not sure what unconditional means as there are always going to be points of discord even among those who love each other very much. In my case I have been married for 58 years to a wonderful wife and we are lucky to have each other in our older years.Marriage requires work ,mutual understanding and sometimes rejection. it is how these are handled that makes for a successful marriage. Marriage is like everything else ,it has rough spots and it is the join attempt to get thru these that makes the difference.

At my job, I have chances to be kind to little tiny kids who need every scrap of kindness they can get. The little tykes like me. I befriended a little boy. He moved to a different state to the custody of his aunt. He sent me a Valentine and his school picture. That little paper Valentine was the best Valentine I ever got. I framed the picture and the Valentine and hung it next to my computer at home.

It is fiction. There are always conditions, even if they are way out there and can usually be ignored.

Even the love of a mother for a child can be destroyed.

I see a lot of people think it comes when you have a child, but not in my case. My son grew up to be a vile, toxic person to me who has destroyed my home, verbally abused me, etc. We do not speak. I have it my mom and did for my father, but they were great people. If they are destructive they don't deserve unconditional love.

What is unconditional love? If you find the person you love in bed with someone else do you continue to love him or her unconditionally or must there be conditions to love? I can well understand unconditional love for babies and children, those who are elderly or those who are ill and unable to take care of themselves.

It is the best feeling in the world. I receive it from another and feel it for her. Others in this thread have touched on it, but I will say it IS possible for it to exist between people other than your children.

If you want unconditional love, get a dog.

Unconditional love is what it sounds like---loving someone no matter what happens and what they do. I love my children and would continue to love them no matter what. I used to think this was possible in relationships but was schooled on that one by my ex.

I'm with the folks that state it's for your kids. When I think of it, I'm immediately drawn to the idea of folks that only love their kids if they believe what their parents do and always live up to the parents expectations and have the correct sexual preference then that's what unconditional love is not. To the rest of us we love our kids even if they disagree with us and go down a different path than we had envisioned but we still love them. That's what I think of when I hear the phrase.

I reserve my privilege to respond in a month from now. Reason to follow.

In Psychological terms Mothers Love is Unconditional-Fathers love is conditional. Nobody can ever say anything about her offspring. As bad as they might be she will always love them and swear to the world how wonderful they are. Daddy on the other hand doesn't quite have the same outlook and his affection can vary because of the a sex identity. This can also relate to his son who if he doesn't like what he is being told to like or pursue the occupation he is told, or could not be a competitive sports fan. Lots of things come into play when it comes to seeing how you fair. This is Psychological Theory and I'm not a Psychologist but it is the way it was taught to me.
Animals exhibit unconditional affection to their owners.

Unconditional love is just that. You would love someone no matter what. Without them having to love you back, no matter how they betrayed you, no matter how bad they are. The only possible case I could see is your own children.
The more common form of extremely emotional love believes in the absolute value of the beloved, who in love is always held to be in greater and incomparably more valuable than the loving subject, because real love of its essence aims at the absolute. The absolute is its only object; all other objects leave it unsatisfied. However much the lover may grow in love, he always feels small, poor, powerless, the lessor of the two. Every donation of himself is felt as imperfect in contrast to the loveliness of the beloved.
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It means I love you and will never stop loving you no matter what. It's a fantasy written in love stories

I think unconditional love is for children. that is, to be given only to your children, whom you will love no matter what they do. In the context of a romantic relationship, for me,loving someone unconditionally meant loving him unconditionally while he treated me very badly and acted with utter disregard for my needs and well-being. I am not promoting “conditional” love - that is essentially what I got - love that was awarded for sacrificing myself for him, and withheld when I displeased him. I am willing to love openly and completely someone who does the same for me, but I will never again promise to love someone who
doesn’t treat me with love.

At this point in my life, is say my pets have unconditional love. They don't care who you are, what you look like, how much money you make or really if you even have a job. They are happy to see you when you come home, whether you were gone 8 hours or 5 minutes. They are always glad you come home!

I don't believe in absolutely, literal, unconditional love. But there is relative unconditional love, if you will. I think it exists, for practical purposes anyway, when it's mutual. If, for example, I suddenly began beating my wife, I think her "unconditional" love for me would (and should!) evaporate.

In some ways, parent / child love is even stronger, but there are ways to break that to, or at least render it horribly dysfunctional. I heard about a woman whose son murdered his own child, slit its throat in his mother's bathtub. And laughed about it. I don't know what I'd do with that information in her shoes, but if there was any "unconditional love" left for her son it would be very dysfunctional to express it, in my view.

What most people mean by unconditional love is that someone loves you in such a way that you cannot do anything, ever, to lose that love. That sounds great. But if you think about that for awhile, that's not a desirable sort of love, it is just slavish devotion. Love is not weak, it is strong. It has standards. It has balance. It is reciprocal.

A feeling when given. A feeling when received.