I don’t believe in unconditional love outside of parent to child. That relationship should always be unconditional.
I realize you said earlier that you’re not in a relationship and have no desire to be at the moment, but speaking as someone who is in a relationship, from my experience, I think unconditional love is what makes a healthy loving relationship between two people. But I also recognize, there can be both conditional and unconditional love in a relationship.
I love my boyfriend very much (we’re going on almost 8 years now), but I do have my limits. He has unconditional love for me and I for him. But I know for certain if he ever cheated on me, I would break up with him. Because I simply would not tolerate that kind of behavior. I’m not going to be someone’s second choice.
But to other than that…no, love is conditional. I have the right to stop loving you if it turns out that your are, say, a murderous sociopath who skins women and wears said skin as a cloak.
I agree with you. Everyone has their limits and it’s different for everyone. If I were Belle, I would run so far away from Rumple at this point. I know Rumple would never purposely do harm to Belle now, but still, living with a person who has such an extreme addiction and will likely never change isn’t healthy either.
I think love can be both unconditional and conditional and but in most cases, love has to be unconditional. Because it’s generally, the most healthy kind of love. Once you attach conditions to love, it get unhealthy very quickly and sometimes destructive.