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What is Tough love?

to care for someone while remaining unsympathetic and being strict

Children need tough love today in order to become productive members of society.

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Tough love - video


Tough love - what is it?

Another version of "being cruel to be kind". To show somebody some tough love today will save them heartache in the future but may cause a small amount of upset for the reciever immediately after the "Tough Love" has been dispensed. They would suffer more if you let them get on with their life with no interference from third parties.

Leo-"I'm gonna ask that girl out on a date"
Chris-"You'd be wasting your time, you are ugly, overweight and suffer severely from B.O. and thats just your good points, take it from me, she will reject you, maybe not straight away, perhaps she will rinse your bank account first, but you have no future with that girl, I'm sorry mate the writing is on the wall"
Leo-"Harsh words, but priceless advice, I guess thats what they call tough love"
Chris-"It sure is, look it up on the Urban dictionary, on second thoughts, you better not"

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What does "Tough love" mean?

What kids that didn't get ass whoopings as kids never got enough of.

She is attention and hug seeking because her father never once wooped her ass (even her mother mollycoddled her and never wooped her ass, and gave her any attention she demanded to get as a kid, and thus she can't do without attention or other people around her all the time), so she doesn't know what tough love is, and thinks the world isn't compassionate enough. She has a geeky sense of innocence within herself and others that doesn't exist in reality, where no humans are entirely innocent or undeserving of suffering. In reality, her sense of justice is that any rule or law that supports her and gets somebody else in trouble is right and just, no matter the rule or law, and any rule or law that disagrees with her or would get her in trouble was unjust, though people like her never actually faced the same consequences everybody else would over breaking rules and laws.

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Tough love - what does it mean?

Butt sex.

Since it was my time of the month, he gave me some tough love...

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Tough love - meaning

The act of doing things that might hurt the other person , but because you want them to learn, be better; being tough with someone you love for showing them the right way; comes from a place of love.

He gives her tough love because he loves her, he wants her to be better.

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Tough love - definition

stopping the ones you love from reproducing for the sakes of others.

Big brother showed his little sister some tough love when he told her he'd hit her pressure points if she did drugs.

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Tough love - slang

Doing some thing really wierd or unexpected, absolutely extra ordinary and uncalled for because of love.

Shady's mum kicked him out of the house because he continued to do drugs and play video game all day. She's gat tough love

Glass sold his car to buy a Ruby for his gal friend.Talk of tough love. What a guy! (Ofcourse I'd never do this. Not my Cruiser!)

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Tough love

Tough love gets things done.

Yesterday, they whined about tough love being abusive and how the guy should be more supportive. Today, they thought doing things in a kinder, gentler way was too weak, and that the guy failed them for lack of tough love.

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Tough love

Compassion might make somebody feel better, but without tough love nothing will actually get done.

Tough love is as effective as compassion.

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Tough love

Tough love is not going around trying show people how heavy handed you are, people who do that are bullshit. Tough love comes from the same thing compassion comes from, the difference is tough love doesn't take it easy on anybody.

There's a difference between showing tough love to somebody and trying to silence or kill anybody who doesn't see things your way because you dont like the way they think, that's not tough love, its bullshit.

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