![]() ![]() We may also experience this kind of unconditional love with other family members, mentors, and friends. Whatever your experience and concept of love is - it matters.Īs children, feeling safe and cared for by our primary caregivers is the first opportunity for us to experience love. Maybe unconditional love is the kind of love that only a higher power can truly offer. You might be fortunate to have one or more people in your life who care for you in this way. Unconditional love provides the assurance that someone cares for us regardless of what we say, do, or think. ![]() It is complete, uninhibited, even absolute. Love that defies action, circumstance, offense, time, distance, and exception. It may seem obvious, but it is love without condition. What is unconditional love and how do we each experience it uniquely? Over the years, I have reflected on this many times, and recently the concept of unconditional love has surfaced frequently in my work. Through a lot of self-reflection and therapy, I discovered that in addition to missing my best friend - her abnormally loud laugh, her witty jokes, our ability to communicate through the arch of an eyebrow - I also deeply missed the feeling of being unconditionally loved by her. The new emptiness where her support and love for me once existed was a kind of loss I had never experienced. ![]() Beyond the profound sadness I felt, I also experienced a deep fissure open up inside me. A phone call on a brilliantly sunny day in October alerted me to her sudden and tragic death, and changed my life forever. When I was in graduate school to become a mental health counselor, I lost one of my closest friends.
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