Loving is like cooking. They both are neither conditional nor unconditional. Either you cook, or you don’t. Either you love, or you don’t. In both cases, you will lose energy as you carry out the action. Without the use of energy, you are believing that you are loving but you are not actually carrying out the action of loving.
Can you be forced to love, to cook? You must not know how to cook but you must know how to love. You should love humanity in general. Why should you not force yourself to love yourself and others, including your enemies, let alone those who are in a bad relationship with you? However, there must be a balance!
Love is not a feeling but a one-way action, which requires energy as discharged by the originator of love, done for the target of love, according to the book, THUMOS Adulthood, Love & Collaboration. Here is the kicker. Such discharge is impossible when targets of love do not share their ideals with the originator of love.
The balance is between sharing your love energy for your ideals and for those of others.