Could not disagree more. I know because I get more unconditional love from my girlfriend and our three children than I have any right to expect or ever would have thought possible. (Get ready, this will get drippy.)
My girlfriend gives me unconditional love every day. When I get on my high horse - and I work in politics so I do that a lot - she just smiles at me, rolls her eyes, and kisses me on the cheek. When she sees I am worried or nervous and - without me saying a word - she will come up to me and hug me and tell me that I am the best man in the world. When she makes love to me and gives her naked body to me in the most intimate and raw and primal and romantic way. It is the most basic sharing of two people that you can imagine.
There is nothing a man can do to earn that. She does not need me - except in the sense that for some strange reason that I cannot explain, I mean something to her. It is not because I have a job - she has one too. It is not because - heaven knows - I am handy around the house. Boy! Would THAT not be true.
It is not because I am always sweet and understanding. Trust me, I ain't. I am opinionated to the nth degree. I have a very definite sense of the way I want my home and am the very definition of a creature of habit.
So what is it then that I did to deserve my gfd's love? Put me to the test, I could not give you a logical, plausible answer. I can tell you that I would give my life to protect her. That there is not a day that goes by that I don't wonder how I got so lucky. That when I hold her and we share our naked bodies and I feel her warm skin against mine I wonder what I did to feel so safe and loved.
Ditto with our children. How did I ever get so lucky as to have such beautiful gifts placed in my arms - as the tears ran down my cheeks? Why I get to feel like a brain surgeon for just kissing a "boo-boo" and making it all better? Why these little people make me feel like a giant? Why I deserve the laughs they give me?
Suffice to say, I could point to so many other things. I barely scratched the surface. The thrust being that I got this without asking or being deserving. To be sure, I had to do my part because nothing comes without a bit of work. The paradox being that does not make it less unconditional.
Bottom line, if you really look around, you - men and women - will find a lot more unconditional love than you can imagine. The problem being that in this day and age, men and women both are quick to count the costs even as they lose sight of the wealth that they have been given. The implicit premise of this question: They know the costs of everything and the value of nothing.
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Absolutely true. Many men are too scared to admit it and many women are too ashamed.
If you love someone based on what they can do for you, it's not love.
Love is unconditional, but a relationship can't always be.
I adored my ex boyfriend, and he treated me like crap... and because i loved him, I made every excuse and every concession under the sun for him.
When he hurt me, I'd blame myself. When he left me, I'd let him go... and then I'd move on and he'd wanted to come back, and I took him back time after time. It was a vicious cycle.
I didn't even recognise myself. The old me would have just walked away long before I actually did, but I was in love.
It wasn't just that I was in love, I was in unrequited love. I had to love enough for the both of us.
I tried absolutely everything to make that relationship work for four long years.
In the end, I had to give up on him because I had nothing left to give. I'd lost myself, I'd lost friends, and I was so tired from having my heart broken over and over.
I knew it had to end when I started thinking that everyone would be happier if I wasn't here, and wondered at what point had I got to that.
I started to wonder what would happen if it didn't end for good.
Leaving him broke my heart... but the relief of not being in that situation anymore was just as intense.
It's been a year, and I don't love him any less. I'm always going to love him, but I won't go near him again.
I want him to be happy. I want him to be in a job that doesn't hold him back, I want him to see himself though the eyes of the people who like him, because he is way too hard on himself.
I want him to be with someone who makes him feel like I felt when things were good with us, and I want that person to feel the same way back.
I want all the best things for him, because he deserves them. I still think that, as a person, he's the best guy in the world. We just weren't good together.
Only dogs are loved unconditionally, unless their owner is a major asshole. Personally, if I fall for you, it's already unconditional, until something disrespectful or rude occurs, then I rethink things. But I'm easy to please in a relationship. I just want some of your time and to cuddle, occasionally go out in public so I don't feel like a secret or something you're not proud to show off...
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A relationship with a man should absolutely be conditional, but I think she can have love in her heart for a man who didn’t meet her conditions.
I don’t believe in unconditional love. If loving someone means sacrificing self respect or health, that’s where I draw the line.
As far as men only being loved if they can provide something, that’s bullshit. What about the sons or daughters that love their fathers? Or what about women who stand by their terminally ill husbands?
People are capable of loving someone without wanting something materialistic in return. Yes there’s women who only love their spouse for what they can provide. But there’s plenty of women chasing deadbeats and losers who have nothing materialistic to offer.None of them get unconditional love.
First of all, I don't love any pets unconditionally. They're cute and nice and everything, but if it gets sick or I have to pick an animal over a person, I pick the person, every time.
Children get more leeway, depending on what they have done and their age.
An adult woman get exactly the same as a man.
Male or female, I think cheating is a bad thing to do, but doesn't necessarily make you a bad person, just a person who has made mistakes like we all do.
Man or woman who has killed in cold blood, I would have the same negative feelings to both.Women are loved only if:
Their good people
Children are only loved if:
If they don't grow up in a messed up family (or with no family at all)
Man's are loved if:
They are good people
Dogs are loved only if:
Dogs are loved by almost everyone cause they are fucking adorable beautiful creatures ❤❤❤❤❤I disagree, I dont think love is ever really unconditional
No, men should find women that love them for who they are and not what they bring to the table. That's not even really love, in my opinion. I certainly have found a person who loves me regardless.
That being said, I don't think anyone is loved COMPLETELY unconditionally (including women, children and dogs).Love is always conditional (except for animals and children as most are pure of heart and very giving of love). But adult humans, they need to have something to offer. Whether or not you offer love, support, stability, companionship, etc is very important. Who wants to be with someone who has NOTHING to offer?
Don’t agree. I think many people have the capacity to love unconditionally. Dogs of course and most parents love their children unconditionally regardless of its reciprocated. As far as a couple, I think it’s completely possible but is solely dependent upon reciprocation... you cannot love unconditionally if you are not loved unconditionally, it’s an extension of trust
No a man is a man and he has a certain job to do. If he won't do it then he is resented. Men don't get pregnant or give birth so we provide instead. Look at how our bodies are built, do you think we can pick up an engine block like a gorilla just because? We're made for war and work that's just the way the cards played out.
I can tell u no one is loved unconditionally. NO ONE. It all depends on who you are. And where do u live? also how good u r in making yourself matter.
have you heard of Brock tuner ‘s case. Or Oscar pistoruis case. Both men violated women and ruined their lives horribly and because they were rich guys they were treated in a very lenient way despite they both would get the death penalty if they were in other systems. It really MATTERS who u r.The fact that almost half of the men said "Yes, I agree." makes me ahamed as a men!
DUDES! If you really think no one will ever love you just for you I am really sorry that you have that little to offer! I am sorry that life sucks that bad for you! I am sorry that women didn't treat you right and/or never gave you attention! BUT most of all... I am sorry for the departure of your testicles!!!Disagree. If you love something unconditionally, then that's your choice. If you're with a woman who only values you for what you can do for her, then you probably need to rethink whether you want to be with her. Guys have a say in who they want to be with and don't have to accept women who treat them like some inexhaustible resource that they can use and take for granted.
I've seen so many women walk out on men for losing their jobs, getting seriously sick or disabled and unable to provide, or just because it's more lucrative to go find another.
Build her a house, buy her a brand new car, fill her closet with the best clothes and jewelry, and she'll boot you out and find another man because you've outlived your usefulness to herOf course, ask any of the women who disagreed whether or not they would date a man without a job who didn't pay for dates (like women), wasn't tall etc. Guarentee you that they would be stammering out an excuse for why that's different in no time.
In the dating world, it definitely seems like a man has to provide something in order to be in a relationship with an attractive woman. But I don't agree with your assertion because my Mom loves me and I don't provide her with anything.
Sounds like a MGTOW whine to me. I do not love anyone "unconditionally." I love my friends and relatives and the women I have dated long term, but always conditioned upon their not trying to steal from me or intentionally harm me.
I don't agree. I think everyone expects things out of everyone. They don't say explicity that you have too, but you can see the implications.
If that’s true it’s also true that only attractive women are loved unconditionally.
I thought it was actually men that were incapable of loving women unconditionally (I thought they'd stop loving if the woman became ugly somehow, even if her personality is as beautiful as ever). I loved a man unconditionally, and he said he'd love me for as long as I was still physically beautiful.
Maybe it's just a case of there being ugly-personality men and women who pursue looks. I want my beauty to be a bonus to someone's love, not the reason and prerequisite.Nah, my pets love me unconditionally and I’m the fucker who sits upon the Pale Horse if you fuck with my pets... and Hell follows with me.
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