Does unconditional true love exist?

Answer 1

of course

Answer 2

NO - there is absolutely no unconditional love. The love a mother has for her son or daughter is perhaps the strongest love. Unless you are a christian and believe in God, then His love would be the strongest.

GOD'S LOVE - His love is conditional upon your obedience to Him. He allows man to live as he chooses (free will) and loves him all the days of his life. Even if he is the worst person in the world, God loves him even if he hates his deeds. But, here's where the condition comes in, if he dies in his sins he will be lost. The Bible says Jesus will say to that man on the day of judgment "Depart from me ye who work iniquity, I never knew you." God's love for that person ould end there and so this is the condition.

MOTHER'S LOVE - Perhaps the one true love is a mother's love for her child. Yet this too has limitations and therefore conditions. Some may say that a mother will love her child no matter what he says or does. But I know this not to be true. Jeffery Dalmer's mother was sickened by the site of him. Her love ended when she found out he had done such heinous crimes. There is a point in every mother/sibling relationship where love can no longer exist and thus it has conditions.

HUSBAND & WIFE LOVE - Here we can also put b/f & g/f love. Any relationship in which there is a special bond as a couple. The love here most definately has conditions. Many will say "I love him unconditionally" but will the love withstand an affair, a child molestation, a brutal wife beating? Love has conditions here.

LOVE OF ONE'S SELF - Ahh. Here is a love that some believe is definately unconditional. Yet there are many suicides each year. Would you kill that which you love? Some have committed such horrible things that it drives them insane when they finally come to grips with what they have done. Love here is conditional.

The love a friend has for a friend, brother for brother, sister for sister, aunts for nephews, uncles for neices ... all of these and more have conditional love.

Although it is sometimes to the extreme side of the scale and most will not get that far, if they did they would unconditionally STOP loving.

What I find most interesting is Love itself. Everytime we fall in love the emotion is different. The love we have for children is much different than the love we have for a spouse. The love we have for a pet is different than the love we have for a grandparent. Love is a unique emotion and is felt very strongly for a variety of things. Yet all love is based upon a condition.

Answer 3

The question of whether true love really exists cannot be answered without first clarifying what true love really is. However, the concept of “true love” has already absorbed so many qualities from literature, television, and magazines that it can no longer be approached with any objectivity. Trying to consider true love freshly at this point would be like trying to taste a wine while you are eating a hot dog.

The image that comes to mind when someone mentions true love is of two inspired individuals, fatefully drawn to each other and ready to risk their lives for the other person’s sake - in essence, Romeo and Juliet. Despite the prevalence of this perception, I have never actually witnessed such a perfect relationship in real life. The closest thing I can think of is something I term “pure love”: love that contains the boundless excitement that only a child can experience.

Pure love happens to some people many times, to others only once, and to still others not at all. The ability to experience pure love depends upon the strength of your idealism. You are more likely to feel it if you are a fourteen year-old girl who believes in fairies, and less likely if you are a forty year-old investment banker who rejoices when the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates. However, no matter how old you are, you can experience pure love if you suspend your adult feelings for a while and allow yourself to be completely vulnerable. There are many possible interpretations, though. Some would call the impassioned excitement of a new relationship “true love,” and others would say that true love is the comfort of being with someone who understands you intimately well. To me, these states represent meaningful emotions; and indeed, there are as many types of love as there are couples. But the pure type of love that I felt when I was fifteen is different. It was life-changing and infinitely painful - the type of thing that you can only feel when your heart is as open as a child’s - and it is all that I can think of when I hear the words “true love.”

Answer 4

A deep and worthy question. I have a friend who is as mean as old boots and when we enter a pub he politely holds the door open for me. He is still a great friend because I have learnt how to live with his miserly ways. Same with a girl. Some things you will adore about her but if she is very untidy and you are not then you may get cheesed off picking her clothes up off the floor. You forgive her these faults because she forgives you yours as well and that is what unconditional love is. You do need to work at in in your head.

Answer 5

I know true love exists but I dont think its unconditional at least not for me.

Answer 6

The closest one ever comes to that is the love from your parents as a child. But that doesn't stop people searching their whole life trying to find that unconditional love again in adulthood, particularly as part of a sexual relationship. But very few ever do.

Answer 7

Yes it does. It's called having children. I still get mad at my wife and have my doubts about the love between the two of us, but both of us have that unconditional love for our two daughters no matter what they do. And that will never change.

Answer 8

Yes, it does. I see it with my own sister and brotherinlaw. They met when they were 8 yr.s old. They married when they were 18. They have been through much in thier lives and always stuck it out together.they are now in thier 60's and love each other very much.They are a true love story, believe me, unconditional Love does exist.

Answer 9

Hello,
True love has exist since the beginning of human life and will exist until the end of human life. Times and actions change as well as the way to show it, but love will always exist. perhaps we are becoming more materialistic or we are scared to show love because there is more hypocrisy and selfishness now a day and we hide our fillings but just because we hide our fillings doesn't mean that love doesn't exist.
Best Wishes.

Answer 10

Depends. With my kids, yes, I would die for them. With romance??? I don't think so. If it was star crossed lovers, you could see what you think is unconditional love, but if one partner hurts the other, then that person would eventually no longer be in love.

Someone spoke of marital abuse, that isn't unconditional love, that's not love at all, that is fear that keeps that person there, maybe denial, but not love.

Answer 11

I think unconditional love is actually rather fake. To say that "I love you no matter what" essentially means you don't care about them, just the idea of them.

Everything is subjective, why not the limits for love?