Have you experienced unconditional love?

I wonder often what that could ever be like or feel like. Having a sadistic, violent and mentally ill mother, I have not known any person to accept and love me, fully. I do have severe PTSD from the awful years withstanding her torture, and it's only natural one would feel inhuman and broken. I do not know how ill ever find a man to accept someone with so much trauma. Have you experienced unconditional love? Do you fear you'll never find it?

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Softy1 · M

The person I wanted to have unconditional love for me didn’t

greencompass · 36-40, F

@Softy1 same. We can't make them love us if they don't🫤

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@Softy1 I think we all go into relationships thinking love will be mutually unconditional, but it rarely is (at least in my experience) in an adult romantic/sexual relationship sense.

BTW I've never been married or wanted to get married. I don't link/equate marriage to 'unconditional love'.