Have you ever experienced unconditional love?

My son… but he’s only two…I bet he won’t feel that way when he’s 18! :-(

I’m still searching for my own unconditional self-love…

I think my dogs would probably stick with me, at least until they got too hungry!

I don’t understand why my wife wants to stay with me, given the shit I’ve put her through. I think she loves me pretty much unconditionally. She’d stay with me if I got sick. The only way she wouldn’t stay with me is if I started hurting her, and never stopped.

I would’ve stayed with my ex through anything, and, for a time, I think he felt the same way. Not sure what changed, though.

Milo here: Gail is not yet at the drooling or vegetative stage, but I’m pretty sure that I would stand by her.

I have fierce unconditional love for my son (it’s sad that not all mothers – including my own – feel that way).

I thought I had it for the men with whom I had long-term relationships. However, in retrospect, I realize that while I did feel love and I would have stayed with them through thick and thin, my immature and needy self was not truly capable of pure unconditional love.

My most recent attempt at a serious relationship surprised me in how I conducted myself as compared to those earlier relationships. I was able to feel the hurt and frustration of things that happened without it destroying me; I came through it sad, yet stronger, and with my dignity intact. I now KNOW that I am capable of the real thing. And one day, I will find someone who is able to appreciate all that I am (and am not) and will reciprocate unconditionally.

Probably so. I felt that way about my ex, I still do, We don’t talk now, He’s dating someone else but I would still do anything for him, I do believe I love him unconditionally because he’s hurt me more then I think the normal person would forgive, Maybe one day He’ll come back, Who knows but my feelings for him won’t change with or without limbs.. =/

My husband says he has unconditional love for me. In the vegetable state, he’d be sad but why wouldn’t he still love me?
But, I don’t think you can call love between two people unconditional. We all have conditions.
If my husband began beating me, or emotionally abusing me..I would leave him.
I have unconditional love for my son. I wonder how I’d feel if he murdered or raped someone though. I cannot fathom the way I would even react to that, but I can’t imagine ever not loving him…but I can lose respect for him.

Never. And I don’t believe in it.

@MacBean; You’re not so far away. I could FedEx Milo to you for a visit, speaking of unconditional love. (Or I could meet you at the Rip Van Winkle bridge.)