Do you really know the true meaning of what unconditional love is?

any one with a pet can answer that question.

Three of the most important phrases i have taught my children
1. You're not stupid, you just do stupid things sometimes
2. Hate is the only word I will reprimand you for saying. "Saying you hate someone is equivalent ti wishing them bodily harm or death."
3. I wont always like you, but I will never stop loving you

Yes, absolutely.

Well put

Lol it can be anything or everything.
Depends on you.

In my experience, it's mainly two things:

an ideal kind of love, that really can and does happen sometimes, such as between parents and children;

a thing that most people say they feel for each other, but actually only do so because they think they are supposed to, but then tragically don't actually do.

What's ironic, and hilarious, and dreadfully sad all at once, is how often I hear or read people saying that they "loved so-and-so unconditionally, but because he/she didn't do as much for them in return, they had to dump them and look for someone who would fulfill their needs."

Idk but love is usually conditional.
No matter how we sugar coat it.

Example, staying with someone because he keeps you happy.
(Keeping you happy is a condition)
Committing to someone because someday he will marry you and have the kids you always wanted.
(Thats a condition too)

Unconditional love is not a magic wand. It doesn’t make everything they do okay or mean you have to support their actions come what may. You can love someone unconditionally and still not be able to BE with them unconditionally, because you love yourself unconditionally too.

I think anyone with morals has some type of conditional line that cannot be crossed.
That's a good thing.
I thought I loved my X unconditionally, until she crossed that line.
I thought I loved my mother unconditionally, until she crossed that line.
I thought I loved my father unconditionally and did until his death but now, in retrospect he crossed that line but I persisted loving him anyway.
Now, I am on the fence about it all. I know I loved him but was it really unconditionally?

As we age, we all change. Our morals also change. There are many things I refuse to tolerate now that I embraced when I was younger.
As I change, gaining wisdom, my conditional line changes as well.
Loving unconditionally is insane.

What if someone you love suddenly begins to stab you with an ice pick?
What if the bring home someone and have sex with them in the living room while your kids are in there watching tv?
There's always a conditional line, always.

Well, being that most here are divorced... I would guess.... no

that was bad Greeneyes, funny but bad and probably true, well except those who have kids from it.

Unconditional Love is given freely to another, without any reference to what You get in return from them.

I wouldn't know. Seems it always came with a heavy price.

then it wasn't unconditional love

Still never experienced the unconditional then. oops: