This is conditional.
This is love based on conduct.
Women are taught this to the extreme. You have to dress the right way, have a nice body and please your husband -- or else he will stray from you. You have to be good at sex and learn how to satisfy him. You must put him above you and everything else in your life. You are the lesser person so you must submit yourself to his needs. You must neglect your own needs because if you don't -- there's a threat he will leave you.
Isn't this the message the world teaches? A love and marriage based on conduct and conditions. A conditional love that's hard on having to do the "right" things to be loved.
This world also recognize that at times men cheat. There's articles on that too.
This idea focuses on teaching women that somehow because your man cheats on you ---> it's your fault.
Because she wasn't sexual enough, experimental enough, caring enough,... etc fill in the blank.
We are taught in our society to believe that we are only worth a man's acceptance.
How can we possible comprehend or understand a love that is not conditional? How can we learn ourselves to love in such a way?
Unconditional
Absolute; it'll happen no matter what else happens.
How do we know how to do that --- if the only love we are shown is based on conditions? How can we learn to accept such a love - if we have been taught we must be good to be loved?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
There is no way to seperate ourselves from the love of Christ. It is unconditional.
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