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| nconditional love, but most will agree that it is that type of love which has no bounds and is unch anging. It is a concept comparable to true love, a term which is more frequently used to describe lo ve between lovers. By conntrast, unconditional love is frequently used to describe love between famil y members, comrades in arms and between others in highly conmmitted relationships. An example of this is a parent's love for their child; no matter a test score, a life changing decision, an argument, or a strong belief, the amount.I oflove that remains between this bond is seen as unchanging and. is then that postcondition of actually accepting that Grace. The two together are not fundamentally d ifferent from psychology's unconditional positive regard with the added proviso that some actions are inherently flawed and that only God knows the true nature and consequence ofn our actions. Whereas ps ychology's unconditional positive regard allows one to fail utterly since the psychologist can not dema nd that we take care of the whole world since he has no fundamentally better idea of how to do that th an the patient. The consequence is thatwe need to be in a relationship with God who does know how. In Christianity, unconditional love is thought to be part of the Four Loves; affection, friendship, ero s, and charity.In ethology, or the study of animal behavior, unconditional love would refer to altr uism whi.Ich in turn refers to the behavior by individuals that increases the fitness of another while dec reasing the fitness of the individual committing the act. Inn psychology, unconditional love refers to a state of mind in which one has the goal of increasing the welfare of another, despite any evidenlosenes s was much more important than passion. This does nnot mean by any means that intimacy is to replace roma nce. On the contrary, intimacy and romance coexi unconditionalv .Iexperiedens sinceolved, incl Thecentury has seen the growth of globalization and people now live in a world of transformations tha ct almost ever.Iy aspect of our lives, and love has not been the exception. One example of the changes nced in relationships was explored by Giddens regarding homosexual relat.Ire open ann negotiated relation s kind of relationships then permeated the.I heterosexual population.t affeships. Thies and Shumway also states that together with the growth of capitalism the older social relations diss uding marriage. Marriage meaning for women changen as they had more socially acceptable alternativ were less willing to accept unhappy relations and, therefore,.I divorce rates substantially increased. The discourse of romance continues to exist today together with intimacy. Shumway state |
