Is love Unconditional?

I always hear people say love is unconditional...Is this true? Do you people believe that or no?

I found that the answer to this question is usually odd from people specially when I compare it to their definition of love.

No. I think it is conditional. If you treat me like crap, I will not love you unless I am an idiot. Minor exception is love for a child who is tolerated despite bad behavior due to their youth. However, once they are grown, I think it becomes conditional.

From your parents & Pets I believe love is unconditional. When it comes to a bf/gf I'm a bit hesitant. You fall in love with that person and theres always a possibility that you/they could fall out of love.

i think it is unconditional.. however, if someone mistreat you, you'll try to hold it back.. but the emotion itself will exist despite what the person has done..

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Originally Posted by artyemi

i think it is unconditional.. however, if someone mistreat you, you'll try to hold it back.. but the emotion itself will exist despite what the person has done..

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Thats what I think but most people will have to argue against it because the emotion that stays no matter what is known to be called infatuation.

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Originally Posted by Only-virgins

Thats what I think but most people will have to argue against it because the emotion that stays no matter what is known to be called infatuation.

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welll, in some situation it's just infatuation.. what people would say is you're just infatuated with someone because you've never really been involved with the person, or because love is something that develops over time.

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Originally Posted by artyemi

welll, in some situation it's just infatuation.. what people would say is you're just infatuated with someone because you've never really been involved with the person, or because love is something that develops over time.

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Sorry but love that developes over time has conditions.

no... love, a noun.. has conditions...

but love as a verb does not..

for me anyways..

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Originally Posted by artyemi

no... love, a noun.. has conditions...

but love as a verb does not..

for me anyways..

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That makes VERY little sense.

I believe that when you love someone, if you really love them, you cant love that person only to an extent. I believe that true, real love...is unconditional.

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Originally Posted by Only-virgins

That makes VERY little sense.

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I think that what artyemi is saying is that love in the emotional sense is conditional (agrees with my position, in that I will not love you if you treat me badly unless I am stupid), but love as a way of behaving (we discussed this before - the sense of behaving a certain way despite variable emotions - such as a parent loving a difficult child) is unconditional.

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Originally Posted by shh!

I think that what artyemi is saying is that love in the emotional sense is conditional (agrees with my position, in that I will not love you if you treat me badly unless I am stupid), but love as a way of behaving (we discussed this before - the sense of behaving a certain way despite variable emotions - such as a parent loving a difficult child) is unconditional.

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So a boyfriend can NOT love a girlfriend unconditionally then?

Who are you asking? Me or artyemi? Because I would reply this way:

Would you love a girlfriend who cheated on you with your best friend?
Would you love a girlfriend who stole from you?
Would you love a girlfriend who intentionally impregnated herself to trap you into marriage?
(you get the idea)

If you can say yes, then I would say that perhaps YOU can love unconditionally, but I cannot. I don't know what artyemi would say.

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Originally Posted by shh!

Who are you asking? Me or artyemi? Because I would reply this way:

Would you love a girlfriend who cheated on you with your best friend?
Would you love a girlfriend who stole from you?
Would you love a girlfriend who intentionally impregnated herself to trap you into marriage?
(you get the idea)

If you can say yes, then I would say that perhaps YOU can love unconditionally, but I cannot. I don't know what artyemi would say.

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I say yes to those question because you dont have to LIKE someone to LOVE them. She can shoot me in the knee cap with a rifle and do all those things you told above but never the less my brain tells me to love them.

I love my mother even though she was abusive... if that means anything.