If you genuinely love someone you naturally would like them to love you back, but you wouldn't like it to be unconditional. You want them to love you in such a way that they profit immensely. You want your love for them to constitute and imply enormous wealth of diverse kinds.
You want to do great things for them, and for them to love you for the glory you bring.
Hmm.
ReplyDeleteIndeed a mothers love is not unconditional, the expectation being that the sacrifices made will lead to a fully functional human, ostensibly on the mothers side.