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RE: Snaps Container // 7/26/2026, 8:36:00 AM

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People often say, "I love you unconditionally," but I've always wondered if unconditional love really exists. Most relationships involve some form of exchange, whether it's emotional support, companionship, security, kindness, or even financial help. That doesn't make the love fake you know, but it does make me wonder where the line is
if someone benefits from having you in their life, does that automatically make their love conditional? Or is mutual benefit simply part of a healthy relationship?

If you realised someone was getting more from you than you were from them, would you become more guarded, or would you still keep your heart open? And share what you think?

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First off, I don't think it's love if you are keeping record or measuring who's doing more. Love in a relationship is about two people helping each other grow together, so it has to be mutual and one could falls short, it doesn't mean the love has to stop.

This is not about keeping records or anything l, it just simply about regular patter because there's a big difference between supporting someone through a difficult season and being consistently taken for granted. Where would you draw that line?

Yeah, love shouldn't be where one is being taken for granted. It's never a wise choice to remain in such when it feels that way.

Though I agree with what you said that love should not be transactional. But don't you think healthy love still requires reciprocity over time, even if it's not always equal not one sided?

Yeah, I think so too.
Love that is one sided is a dangerous.

Hmmmmm . Someone once said being in a relationship is transactional , I think that's how I will answer weds or not who gains more ,you both are getting something in return

But is that how it's supposed to be?

Hmm it is how it is whether intentionally or not intentionally

But with what we have seen today, most relationships are parasitic in nature. Just one sided

One sided is bad . That one isn't good

Exactly and it shouldn't be encouraged in any way

I guess we could say the love is conditional. The only unconditional love we can all bank on is, the love of God to man and maybe the love of a mother/father to the child.

Yes, I totally agree with that of God. But coming to us human, haven't we all seen parents who abandoned or rejected their children? Doesn't that suggest even parental love can be conditional?