“Love is not a caste, creed or sleep on broken bed. I went in search of love and lost myself.”
What is Love? For each one of us, love has different meanings and importance and the strange part is that the scenario only works for us. No one else’s in the whole wide world can tell you about what love means to you.

EXPLORING LOVE
We cannot deny the existence of love or its other forms, like, affection and care in other relationships. Respect and a near celestial love are the further offshoots of this emotion.
We all know the importance of this feeling in our lives in relation to someone. But it can also help us to better our own selves in the first instance, and then help us in our relationship with others around us.

LOVE & CONDITIONS
Love that expects nothing in return and that stays despite of the fact that the love from other has faded away just like the love of the parents for their three year old. They love him if he troubles them. They love him even if he keeps them awake the whole night, every night. They love him even when they’ve to take the trouble to rush to the hospital. The child’s problems in his little world seem to vanish once he is in their arms.
But times have changed and so come the conditions with love. Now imagine the three year old to be a five-year old. His parents expect him to study well and behave well. Statements like, “You will get the chocolate if you say all the nursery rhymes nicely. We love you so much because you come first in class.” It then becomes conditional love. You do this for me and then you will be loved by me, is the underlying implication of all these statements.

Manipulation by both parties begins. The child understands that if he perform well, he would be liked and would get a desired emotion or demands. The child also understands that he has to hide his own feelings and vulnerabilities because these qualities are not acceptable to his parents or society. So the child actually puts on a performance by denying these unapproved actions to get the maximum benefit out of his parents or teachers. Sometimes the expectations are too high and if he fails to fulfill he try to rebel discovering various tactics to evade extra classes, or changing the marks on the report card. Assure your child that he is loved and cared no matter what, and that the love he gets from his family is not proportional to his performance, but is a constant. The seeds of emotional relationships are sowed in childhood to grow him as an emotionally intelligent adult. It is a fact that a child, who is burdened by guilt, or by a reciprocal quid-pro-quo arrangement of love, will continue to behave in the very same fashion as an adult.