Unconditional Love: is it possible to love men for who they are?
Or will it always be for what they provide…?
Hard truths tend to hurt more than anything.
Whether they be truths about what is externally uncontrollable, or whether it’s truths that we’ve been running from that we can actually change ourselves.
The comedian Chris Rock said in one of his stand-up specials:
“Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally…a man is only loved under the condition that he provides something.”
Props to the people who created a very theatrical edit to these words. It felt like a knife in the heart, ya jerks.
I was always a romantic as a teenager and in my twenties. Sometimes I was very much a hopeless romantic. I was a Casanova-inspired little kid. When it came to girls, all I could think of was how to sweep them off their feet. The gifts, the flowers, the notes, the whisper of sweet nothings…I was overwhelmed by the thought of love I would receive if I did all the right things.
Maybe it was just the hormones…maybe it was naivety. I just loved women! I love the prospect and the potential. I dreamed of having this partner who could understand my soul and who would let me into hers. Someone who hold her own in the world…
