tender loving care
Affectionate personal attention
Tender loving care is attentive, gentle treatment that shows genuine concern for someone's wellbeing.
The phrase appears most often in its initialism TLC: What this old house needs is some TLC.
It applies to people, animals, plants, or objects that benefit from patient, nurturing attention rather than neglect or rough handling.
- TLCAffectionate attention, abbreviated
- holdMaintain in grasp
- hugTight, affectionate clasp
- thoroughnessAttention to every detail
- security blanketSoothing attachment object
mother's love · safe space · soft · concern · nurturing · compassion · warmth · caregiving · home nursing · cherishing · motherly · warm embrace · empathy · attention · kindness · heartwarming · bedside · bedside manner
tender loving careneglect
Failure to provide care
indifference · abandonment · disregard · emotional neglect · cold shoulder
tender loving careabuse
Cruel or violent treatment
mistreatment · cruelty · maltreatment · brutality · violence
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