But sometimes love is conditional. And acknowledging that fact (and not holding unconditional love as the only type of love to strive for) will help us figure out what we want out of our romantic ...

And, in the event an unconditional love is seen to be conditional after all, the individual who walks away will feel less guilty and less of a failure/ (c) Fredric Neuman. Follow Neuman's blog here.

Yet, remarkably, unconditional love has become the great human and even divine ideal. This is a recent development. Google charts the use of words and terms in English-language books from the ...

All of those are examples of conditional love. Unconditional love does not depend on your partner acting a certain way, saying certain things, or doing certain things for you.

Conditional love, everyone can well remember, is being hot and cold with a child – accepting them only when they are polite, honest, bring home good grades, get into name-brand colleges, U.S. World ...

If you love someone depending on certain factors like what they can do for you, then it is conditional love. The act of loving an individual irrespective of the circumstances is unconditional love.

Quite the opposite -- the most selfish thing we can do is to love others compassionately and unconditionally, writes guest columnist Param Srikantia. Skip to Article. Set weather.

But sometimes love is conditional. And acknowledging that fact (and not holding unconditional love as the only type of love to strive for) will help us figure out what we want out of our romantic ...