Note: In a previous post, Unconditional Love is Bad!, I provoked some strong responses from readers. The main beef that they had was with my notion that parents withdraw their love from their children ...

Experiencing conditional love is the outcome of being taught conditions of worth. If you were taught conditions of worth earlier in your life, what you likely learned is that how you look is more ...

The truth is, it’s painful to see all the subtle behaviors that people tend to display when their parents only showed them love when they did whatever their parents asked them to. The kids who grew up ...

Breaking it down: Parental conditional regard refers to the situation where your parents love, care for, or even respect you as long as you do what they want get married, have children, or work a ...

It's not that transactional parents don't love their kids, it's that they think they deserve the world in repayment for their ...