Unconditional Love
This is my understanding of unconditional love does not have stipulations attached to it when you express it.
If you cannot love another person without stipulations, then it is not love at all, only deep-seated opportunism such
as someone making the most of an advantageous situation, often unmindful of others.
When is it unconditional?
If you want what is best for the other person, other than in how that person can enhance your life, then it is unconditional love.
No stipulations, no strings, and no expectations of performance are required. If it is from the heart, you expect nothing in return.
When you say, I love you, the words should carry a desire to show someone that you love them, rather than impose your own
expectations or attempt to control them, put yourself in their shoes.
Try to understand who they are, how they feel, and where they are coming from; realize how they could love you in return.
Also, realizing that different people have different ways of showing love and some simply do not have the capacity to love,
sometimes through no fault of their own. They may desperately want to love but do not know how, or maybe they have been
deeply hurt before, and keep their heart guarded, or even have psychological issues that keep them from understanding
something so profound.
When you love someone it should be with the intent to improve that person’s life, allow them to be themselves and accept
them as they are, not who you want them to be.
Sometimes it takes realizing that you can lose the one you love to appreciate the gift that you have been given.
Click the image for the “Love Lessons” video.
Understanding this from a parent’s perspective made love crystal clear to me.
No, I still don’t always get it right, there are times I wish I would have done things differently, but I ultimately want what’s best for the other people in my life, and even for strangers that I will never meet, people like you.
