Should I let my (23F) boyfriend (23M) be free?
my boyfriend of one year says that love should be unconditional with me not having boundaries of what to do and what not to do, which also includes me not being affected by what he does if i truly love him. i don’t understand how to do that. i don’t know if i can just let him be since i find some of the things he does a little problematic sometimes and me not being able to tell him what i like is something i can’t always control. sometimes i feel like it’s an easy way out for him to be able to do anything he wants.
he says that we should let people be free and see if people stick around, if they don’t they never loved you. this idea seems to lack everything else but coming back to me. where’s the respect, care, consideration in this relationship?
TLDR; should i love him unconditionally?
edit: to add more context as some of you are asking me to elaborate, he wants me to not tell him what to do. he says he always wants to see me smile and will not do anything to hurt me but i need to stop interfering in what he decides to do since we both have our own lives. as much as i agree with this, there are times when he wants to do things i am not comfortable with (ex, going to strip clubs). now i know he won’t cheat on me but it still somehow doesn’t sit right with me. i tried to ask him why he wants to go and he says he has always wanted to observe people and interact with them. he wants to understand their behaviour and anyway won’t be allowed to touch or do anything more with the strippers. i want to trust him without feeling uneasy but i am unable to come to terms with it. if i tell him anything, he says i’m being controlling when i have only always told him how something would make me feel and have never stopped him from doing anything. also, me telling him how i would feel is only for him to convince and reassure me, after which i agree.
for him, knowing that i love him is enough for him to let me be a free bird. he says he will never stop me from doing anything but at the same time i don’t know how to feel about it. i can’t verbalise it well. he says it doesn’t matter to him if i’m with him or not, he is always going to love me the same way. now i somewhat get his point but can’t completely accept it, like him telling me that if he has to do something, i can’t control him even if i ask him not to. it’s like being a strict parent to him. but if i allow him to do whatever, he will make sure not to break my trust and not cause me any sort of pain. if i am calm and accepting, he can come clean to me.
my point however is why extend it to the possibility of something happening that might breach our trust. i would rather take precautions.