My wife says she is done

[Dats000]

my self development goal during me time to learn to love unconditionally,

I was watching a clip by marlon Wayans talking about Jada Smith this morning and this caught my attention:

This woman was so smart. she used to teach me about love.

She had these big power words and descriptions of love when she was 19.

She was telling me love is acceptance.
love is unconditional
love has no expectations because then you will be disappointed
love involves devastation
love is forgiving
and real love is healing
and I learned love is learning to let go.
Love is caring about the happiness of others without a thought what we might get for ourselves
Love is is not controlling
Love is not dependent on an action we do or someone else does

A good exercise might be to see how big we could make this list.

Added to your list. Probably similar and I stole them from another post. Unfortunately I didn’t get this from my mom as an adult. I could never meet her expectations which gave me so much guilt and pushed me so far away. So I have to leave this baggage at the door. I need to keep developing myself to be a better model for my kids and give myself every chance possible to have a relationship with them as adults.