Tears as Woman Honestly Lists the Ways She Wants to Be Loved: 'All of This'

A video is making waves on the internet for its description of true, unconditional love.

The clip, posted by Rosie Wooldridge under the handle @rosiewooldridge, shows her speaking to the camera about the kind of love she longs for: a deep, secure, committed connection. Users seemed to relate to Wooldridge's longing for love, and the video has received over 730,000 likes and 5,000 comments on TikTok.

"I would like to be loved properly, not half-heartedly, not in bits," Wooldridge said in the video, adding, "I want to be loved fully, and I deserve that. I want to be held in a way that nobody's held me before—with safety, and security, and knowing that you've got me."

Wooldridge said she yearned for a love that embraced her wholly—providing safety, care and unwavering commitment. In the comments section, TikTok users expressed their shared desire for meaningful connection.

"No mind games, no silent treatments, no conditions, no breadcrumbing, just pure love and partnership," one user wrote.

Others shared personal experiences, describing the impact such a genuine love has had on their lives.

"I was loved this way at 20 years old by my first love," a commenter wrote. "I'm 35 and single now. But so grateful I experienced that sort of love. Even if it ended."

Many commenters mentioned the love they had for themselves and their own capacity to give love to others, saying what they put out would eventually return to them.

"I want to be loved by someone that knows how to love themselves first because then they will know how to truly love others then," one user wrote.

"I know this love exists because that's the love I give," another added.

"It gives me hope that there are women like you out in the world, and that I wasn't 'wrong' for giving all of these things in the past for it not being reciprocated," a commenter wrote. "I still have a lot to give."

Love Is 'Unconditional Acceptance'

In the essay "The Essential Basis of True Love and the Psychologically Healthy Relationship," published in the Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, academics associated with the University of Maine discussed the nature of authentic love.

True love, the paper said, involves total acceptance and the nonjudgmental welcoming of another's wholeness. It also requires one to surrender their own self-seeking behaviors to offer a complete presence and connection with the other.

"Love is not a selective relationship to only a part of the other individual, but, rather, it involves the nonjudgmental total unconditional acceptance of the other, related to as an indivisible wholeness," the authors wrote. "The energy of love, warmhearted caring, or genuine experiential and energetic connection flows into a relationship when there is a state of fully invested, self-forgetful, communion or non-dualistic oneness with the other."

In the video, Wooldridge said she hoped this kind of love was on her horizon—and everyone else's, too.

"I want to be loved at the fullest capacity, and love at the fullest capacity, and I deserve that. We deserve that. I don't think I've experienced love at that capacity yet," she said. "I will one day. I just don't know when."