I personally am much more comfortable when people’s love for me is conditional. I like to know that it is based on real aspects of who I am, and thus would not be guaranteed to stay if those things changed in a way the other person was not happy with. If love is truly “unconditional,” if there is no change in myself that would make you revoke it, then do you really love me, or do you love the abstracted idea of me?
I personally am much more comfortable when people’s love for me is conditional. I like to know that it is based on real aspects of who I am, and thus would not be guaranteed to stay if those things changed in a way the other person was not happy with. If love is truly “unconditional,” if there is no change in myself that would make you revoke it, then do you really love me, or do you love the abstracted idea of me?