Your friends will tell you when you've screwed up. Real friends will stick by you when you've really screwed up. Those that don't were never your real friends. Those that love you will stick by you through thick and thin. They may yell and scream at you, or just shake their heads, but they will still be there. They don't walk away, leaving you high and dry. They don't screw you over, tell you lies and use your love for their own selfish purposes. If they do, they were never your friends and they never did love you to begin with.
I don't believe that real love for someone ever dies. If it is real love, it is always there. Sexual love for someone will change with the wind. That is not love. Someone who really loves you will not tell you to move on and get a life without them. They want and need you in their life because you complete a part of their soul.
I recently asked a minister of God what is unconditional love. They thought it was allowing someone to move on. Their answer told me they didn't know what is was either and struck me as funny considering God has unconditional love for us. I feel maybe what should have been said is:
"Unconditional love is real love that allows someone to make their choices, good or bad, and face the consequences of those choices. But not face them all alone. It is a love that allows you to be there for someone when they need you. Help them up when they fall, and try to do what you can for them. It is a love that never changes, and never ends."
My love for certain people has been like the footprints in the sand poem with a few changes.
"Where were you when I needed you?" " My love, I have been at your side in a moments notice, and I have carried you. I did carry you at times when you only saw one set of footprints in the sand. Those weren't your footprints. They were mine. But when you see the double set of footprints again, those were ours. Where they veer off the path again, those are yours, leaving my side once again."
Unconditional love carries you through good times and bad. Stands beside you no matter what. Helps you when your back is against the wall in life, and it digs you out when the wall has fallen down around you. This is what I believe.
To my children: I have unconditional love for you.
To my grandchildren: I have unconditional love for you.
To the love of my life: I was standing there for you before I loved you, as a real friend. Then I loved you. You slapped my cheek and I turned my face to give you the other cheek. You slapped that one too. You walked away from our path again and again. You threw my unconditional love for you back in my face over and over. I should have never given you that kind of power over me. I want you to know I will always remember the good times, but I will also never forget the bad. I love you still.
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