The only unconditional love I have honestly ever experienced is with my doggies & my horses. I think my 4 legged family provides the only understanding of unconditional love that I can ever imagine.

There isn't a person on this earth that I can honestly say I love. Even when I got married, what I thought was love then, really wasn't. It was just 2 people living together, coexisting & tolerating each other.

I don't know about the love from my parents.....it was kind of there, only I didn't feel anything special. We just seemed to function together as people. I know that I was always there when my Mother or Father needed me (I was the only child).....maybe that was love....maybe I just felt that I owed my caring to them because they cared for me when I was growing up. I know when my Mother would get strange....I would let her know she couldn't get away with it & would let her know that when she got herself together, I would be glad to be there for her, but until then....she needed to stay away. I didn't like fighting, but if I felt like I was being treated wrong....I didn't sit back & take it...parents, grandparents, husband, friends....whoever. I always take care of myself first of all.

I know the feelings of love that people talk about, is something I have never experienced except with my 4 legged babies, so the concept of unconditionial love with people is a very foreign concept to me.

I am fascinated by others explainations of unconditional love maybe because it is such a foreign concept in my human relationships.

Debbie