unconditional love?!?!?
@proudmammabear (556)
Canada
May 30, 2008 1:27pm CST
I am just wondering what this means to all of you out there in MyLot! You hear about a parents love for their child being unconditional, or the love for a partner being unconditional? Is this truth? Is there even such a thing as unconditional love, or is there something that a partner/child/etc. do that would be so unfathomable that it could make you stop loving the other person? To me it is a really difficult concept, unless I think about it in terms of my children, but even then I ask myself, knowing how I raised my kids, if they were to take the life of another human being, or something else equally as ghastly, would I really still Love them? Stand beside them come what may? I don't really know that I could do that! What do you think?
4 responses
@Enjoytheworld (106)
• India
30 May 08
well..unconditional love means you love others for no reasons..am i making sense? it is really difficult to do that..because you can not force yourself to love others..it has to come naturally. for that first you have to understand what is love? obviously there is no unconditional love. coz if you love somebody for something then there is no more love..isn't it? so, love means unconditional love.Thanks...
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@proudmammabear (556)
• Canada
2 Jun 08
Very insightful, and definately worth giving me something to think through in my own mind. thank -you!
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
30 May 08
I would be willing to bet that, while you would be sad, angry and horrified if your child did something extremely horrible, you would still love him. I don't think that I would be able to stand by mine or maybe not even be able to look him/her in the face again but, in my heart, I would still love and feel pain for the loss.
@proudmammabear (556)
• Canada
2 Jun 08
how would you love if you couldn't trust, stand by your child, or look them in the face ever again...and if you feel pain for the lost of closeness I am interested to hear what your definition of love would be, as to me Love is having absolute trust, confidence and extreme endearment towards another human being. If that is taken, then what is the love that you have? Is it love for that human being, (your child) or is it a love for what they used to be, or your Idea of what they could be?
@poohgal (6845)
• Singapore
31 Aug 08
I know my parents love me unconditionally. I do too. No matter what they are or aren't, I love them. It's because of my love for them and their love for me that I will try my best not to do anything that might hurt them.
As for unconditional love in the romantic sense, I do not really think it exists. It sounds more like fairy tale to me.
@kassdaw (591)
• United States
30 May 08
Unconditional love, well to me it means that you can't just stop loving that person. No matter what my son does or can do I wont stop loving him. It just isn't that simple. My husband, if he was to do something horrible or hurt me emotionally I would be upset and maybe even hate him. But I couldn't just stop feeling love for him. You can't change your feelings that quickly. Maybe over time I would lose that love but not at the moment.
@proudmammabear (556)
• Canada
2 Jun 08
Very interesting, are hate and love not like ying and yang? How could you both hate and love? I am very interested in the whole human emotion spectrum. I have a degree in Psychology so people's answers facinate me.
