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Originally posted by FMF
No, don't go back and change a post that's already been replied to.

I would say "unconditional love" for a spouse would result in the non-criminal one either ignoring the crime or joining their spouse in crime.

If your love is only in place if your spouse remains the person that you 'knew him to be' that is to say the way you want him to be, then to call your love "unconditional love" is a misnomer.

Originally posted by Landisqueen170
If I married you and you were a man of great character and integrity, and you turned out to be some sick pedophile...I'm out. My love would come to a serious abrupt ending. Call me cold if you wish. 😀

I think this discussion has been civil, provocative and genuine. The only substance-free (attempted) nastiness has come from Suzianne. 😉

Originally posted by FMF
Russia is an ally of the US in the War On Terror. Do you support Russian troops unconditionally, as long as they do not blatantly disregard the Russian military code?

Originally posted by Landisqueen170
Any Russian troop standing shoulder to shoulder with one of our fighting force, willing to fight to their last breath to take out ISIS, so that my kids have a safer future? Yes, my hat is off to them. Unconditionally.

Originally posted by FMF
I'm not calling you "cold". I am saying that love being conditional on one's partner not changing is not "unconditional love". I think a lot of people tell themselves they feel "unconditional love" and keep doing so up until they fall out of love because circumstances changed.

Originally posted by Landisqueen170
if you married a person of solid character, who "represented" themselves to you in a favorable way that suited your needs and desires, and then (s)he did a 180 on you, that is loving someone under false pretenses. You've been deceived. This nullifies any love/loyalties you may have had for that person.

Originally posted by FMF
In the Crimea and eastern Ukraine too? Do you unconditionally support what their pilots are doing in Syria?

Originally posted by FMF
Every single one of the married couples I've known who subsequently got divorced talked to me of their unconditional love at some point in their relationship - and not one of those marriages split because one of them "did a 180" or had got married under false pretenses" or turned out to be sick pedophile.

Originally posted by Landisqueen170
So...respond to my above post regarding Russian troops standing side by side with your country's troops fighting ISIS...you feel what? No gratitude towards them? A little? Tremendous?

Originally posted by Landisqueen170
They are just throwing the term around then. Doesn't seem like unconditional love to me if they split up for the "typical" reasons.

Originally posted by FMF
I live in Indonesia. I don't "support unconditionally" Russian troops.

Originally posted by FMF
And yet they professed "unconditional love" and it was no doubt real to them at the time it was professed. Certainly, I think your notion that "unconditional love" can be cancelled by someone changing sounds to me like "conditional love". The only "unconditional love" I can recognize is the one that endures come what may, and I think it is a largely mythological ...[text shortened]... romantic notion. The couples I mentioned split because they grew apart and were no longer happy.

Originally posted by radioactive69
And yet I think it's possible to unconditionally love our children.

Originally posted by FMF
And yet they professed "unconditional love" and it was no doubt real to them at the time it was professed. Certainly, I think your notion that "unconditional love" can be cancelled by someone changing sounds to me like "conditional love". The only "unconditional love" I can recognize is the one that endures come what may, and I think it is a largely mythological ...[text shortened]... romantic notion. The couples I mentioned split because they grew apart and were no longer happy.