

It is not unconditional love when someone likes you only because you can give them what they want.

It is caring about another person’s happiness without demanding for any benefits for themselves. What is love? According to the book Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships, unconditional love is true love. Unconditional love is to love someone no matter what life throws at us. Within our society there seems to be so much pressure to be perfect that to love ourselves has become a pretty hard task to achieve, but it is the key to total, unconditional love of all others. This kind of love requires an unconditional love of yourself first, so you can have the strength of heart and mind to give the same to another human being. To love someone under any circumstance is a true test of unconditional loving, and although it may seem simple, it is probably one of the toughest attributes to possess.

The idea of unconditional love seems to have fallen by the wayside, as more and more of us want love, but are ill-prepared to give or even receive it. Today, it seems, we have an incredible amount of expectation of one another.
