Unconditional What?

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⠀⠀⠀⠀Unconditional love?
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⠀⠀⠀⠀On your breath, those words are nothing but another hard slap.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀An unjustified accusation to deflect responsibility from your own choices.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀An unreasonable demand imposed on me that you have no care to live up to.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀So, that’s just the way you are?
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⠀⠀⠀⠀I have to accept you at your worst, else I will never deserve your best?
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⠀⠀⠀⠀And next time you have the chance, you’ll do exactly the same?
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⠀⠀⠀⠀No.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀Accepting abuse is no act of unconditional love.
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⠀⠀⠀⠀Call it unconditional surrender.


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