Unconditional love is something we feel towards other person without thinking anything about ourselves. Loving without asking for something in return, without even expecting to be loved back.

We have ways of making you talk! LOL!

I am very good at what I do, but I am unclear about your question. I don't look for marriage potential in everyone I meet, that takes long-term proving on their part. But a yes or no on the topic of intimacy is fairly easy; do I want to be their friend or a little something more.

Love is not an emotion. First of all. Love might *involve* emotions, but love is not itself an emotion. Love is closest to an action. Perhaps love could be called "a conscious act of will."

That quote came from Shakespeare's Sonnet 116:

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Clearly, you missed the point, or attempted to repeat the point, and failed. So, you've forced me to paraphrase Shakespeare. Thanks.

Even just looking at those two lines (which I quoted before), "love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds," no one could put the notion more eloquently or succinctly. When a person changes, love remains steadfast, through "tempests," through trouble, all kinds of trouble. When a person alters, love does not alter. That's eternal, unconditional love.

Hmmm, no, there really are only two options. Either you love someone or you don't. Pretty simple. There may be a lot *surrounding* a situation, such as jealousy or pride or infidelity, but none of those things represent love; so, they must represent hate, and I'd argue that they do. Love is pretty black and white. Either you're striving to love or you're striving to hate; just as you're either striving to live or striving to die. There is no in between.

I should know.

Recently this moron messaged me telling me how wonderful my profile was and how beautiful I am

[snickers} At the time I had no pic up and my profile says nothing

Yes. You can forgive. Forgiveness is a pivotal part of love.

"Love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds."

If God can forgive any person completely, so should we. It's still a choice; you can hold your hatred against extreme evil inside you and let it destroy you, or you can forgive; you can love. Those are your options.

The mattress humping thread was one of the most funniest and memorable.This particular post is from the bygone days when this site was known as Just Say Hi.I'm certain that the O/P felt deeply embarrassed from exposing his little secret hence his quick de-activation.However the thread remained active for days afterwards.Yep!them were the days of great forum participation.Good Times! Godspeed!CyPoet :)

My rule is three dates

I haven't ever used the 5 date rule, I was just curious about people take on it. I'm just really getting tired guys who think that i will have sex with someone Ive only talked to online, or expect sex the 1st time we meet. Even though I clearly tell them before had that is not what I am looking for. So I was considering telling guys that I had a 5 date rule, as a way to help the the situation, and wanted others opinions on it.

It seems, you do have your limitations about what other people do in public. Well, I look at it like this: The things we might see other people do in public - for one... could be a good conversation piece, don't you think? With this in mind, I figure you might be concerned about what other people might think about what you do in public. Am I correct?

I do believe in unconditional love BUT the world
is changing so much. I watch the news and see where
a parent killed their child. My question is how in the
he!! could a parent kill their child?
It seems like everyone is getting so mean, is it even
safe to bring children in this mean world anymore? I
truly think that IF I was young again and had to do things
over right now, I would not have kids.
Why would I want to bring a child in to this scary world to
where you can not even feel safe sending them outside
to play in your own yard.
Don't get me wrong, I love my children but I would hate to
see how this world is going to be once they start having kids
of their own.

I DO THINK THERE IS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE BUT I THINK PEOPLE ARE
GOING CRAZY DUE TO LACK OF COMMON SENSE AND NOT KNOWING HOW
TO BE A PARENT AND NOT KNOWING HOW TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN!!!

How the hell could you? Any sane person wouldn't.

Whoa...

That description seems true: Love that runs deeper than our flaws.

I disagree with the second part: Love can endure even the most heinous acts. If you think about people who commit gruesome crimes, like murder, how their loved ones, much of the time, do not abandon them amidst their turmoil; their love endures. Even less extreme scenarios, like someone you love leaving you; your love for that person doesn't just go away. If it did, life would be exponentially easier, but exponentially shallower.