“Unconditional” makes a lot more sense if we think of it as “unconditional, conditional on my ability to think of conditions on my love”. This is what I think most people mean by unconditional love: they can’t think of any reasonable conditions on their love, and would discount unreasonable conditions as unusual or outside the realm of what’s meant by “unconditional”.
This is probably something like a shape-rotator vs. wordcel thing: shape-rotators take words literally and are uncomfortable with a word like “unconditional” unless there are literally no conditions, while wordcels are happy to say “unconditional” if the conditions are outside their Overton Window for reasons they would stop loving someone.
“Unconditional” makes a lot more sense if we think of it as “unconditional, conditional on my ability to think of conditions on my love”. This is what I think most people mean by unconditional love: they can’t think of any reasonable conditions on their love, and would discount unreasonable conditions as unusual or outside the realm of what’s meant by “unconditional”.
This is probably something like a shape-rotator vs. wordcel thing: shape-rotators take words literally and are uncomfortable with a word like “unconditional” unless there are literally no conditions, while wordcels are happy to say “unconditional” if the conditions are outside their Overton Window for reasons they would stop loving someone.