Does unconditional love really exist?

Do you not know how to use a dictionary?

Well, as has been said, we have only conjecture to go on, since the Celtling has a heart of gold and never does a bad turn on purpose. :wink:

But I can imagine a scenario inwhich she had done something Dahmer-esque, and I would still love her. I might hate what she’d done, and whatever circumstances brought her to that turn, and even agree that she needed to be restrained for life. But I would still walk beside her through the court process, and even pay for a lawyer if I could. I’d love her every step of the way, and the knowledge that her punishment was deserved would probably do little to assuage my grief at the knowledge she was suffering. I’d even visi her in court, and try to help her make as much of the rest of her life as she could, within the limits she’d brought upon herself.

I love her no matter what. I firmly believe that there’s nothing she, or anyone else could do to change that.

You find out what love is by loving and I don’t mean sex.
Love holds things together when love is absent things fall apart.

Spewing out random sentences that contain the word “love” is not the same thing as having a conversation. I stated that “love” is an emotion, you asked what an emotion is then gave a nonsense definition not found anywhere but your imagination. Here is a commonly understood definition of “emotion”:

I read that also. When you feel unconditional love you will see how inadequate that
label is. Love starts with yourself, do you love yourself is the first question in the discussion.

That’s the question – are we talking about the emotion or the reason? Love the warm tingling feeling, or love the reasoning that I want good for others, I want what God wants for them, even if I don’t have a positive feeling for them at all (for example, people I don’t know and will never meet)? And yes, you need to love yourself and believe you are worthy of good and of what God wants for you before you can love others.

hey, hey :slight_smile:

I would like to add that self-love will cure so-called mental illness
as it grows stronger and eliminates anxiety and fear.

And to think that “self-love” was actually considered to be a disease itself. Now it actually cures mental illness-will wonders never cease!

How much for a 90-day prescription?

I think by definition you’ve have to handle that yourself.

Nothing in money its free, but learning to love yourself usually takes longer than 90 days.

It took me about three minutes to figure it out the first time.

That is fast.

Once I got the hang of it, I was able to take longer.

And the proper reading material can help sometimes, too.

What do you read?

Laurell Hamilton, Poppy Z. Brite, and others.

I don’t believe in Vampires.

back to the question.
the term “love” is very problematic.
how about unpacking the phrase “unconditional love?”
Is there such a thing as an unconditional experience?