I wrote a series of tanka in one post a couple of years ago, https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/unconditional-love-3481bffe22f4 One was:
"Love’s a condition
that should not have conditions
Love with conditions
is a property exchange
It’s legal prostitution"
that was inspired by White Feather's essay https://whitefeather9.medium.com/prostitution-and-divorce-bae0df9fc677
I am divorced. I could have stayed in my nuclear family marriage if being loved was enough for me. But I need to love and be loved, and besides, I don't think she and I define love in the same way. Don't ask me to define it, Shawn. It just has to be felt and people do fall in and out of love and that doesn't mean the love wasn't real. That's also covered in my collection I linked above.