tough-love
Discipline with heart
Tough love is affection expressed through firm discipline or harsh honesty rather than indulgence.
Parents practicing tough love might refuse to bail out a child who keeps making bad choices, believing that facing consequences teaches better than rescue.
The approach assumes that short-term hardship produces long-term benefit: It was tough love—she cut him off financially until he got sober.
Trained self-control or specialty
- boundariesLines marking separation
- consequencesResults of actions taken
- firmnessResistance to deformation
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
structure · rules · expectations · guidance · correction · limits · intervention · grounding
Purposeful involvement to change course
- rehabAddiction treatment program
- enablingMaking something feasible
- codependencyExcessive emotional reliance on another
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
recovery · bottom · detachment · relapse · confrontation · treatment · withdrawal · boundaries
Guiding others to improve
- criticismJudgment of faults
- demandingRequiring great effort
- pushForce something away
- challengeTest of ability
potential · excellence · bootcamp · rigor · grit · performance · improvement · feedback
Truthfulness, sincerity
- confrontationDirect hostile encounter
- feedbackReturned response data
- directnessQuality of being straightforward
- candorUnguarded truthfulness
bluntness · truth-telling · challenge · accountability · growth · breakthrough · uncomfortable · healing
discipline
Trained self-control or specialty
- boundariesLines marking separation
- consequencesResults of actions taken
- firmnessResistance to deformation
accountability · structure · rules · expectations · guidance · correction · limits · intervention · grounding · curfew
intervention
Purposeful involvement to change course
- rehabAddiction treatment program
- enablingMaking something feasible
- codependencyExcessive emotional reliance on another
sobriety · recovery · bottom · detachment · relapse · confrontation · treatment · withdrawal · boundaries · ultimatum
coaching
Guiding others to improve
challenge · potential · excellence · bootcamp · rigor · grit · performance · improvement · feedback · motivation
honesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
- confrontationDirect hostile encounter
- feedbackReturned response data
- directnessQuality of being straightforward
candor · bluntness · truth-telling · challenge · accountability · growth · breakthrough · uncomfortable · healing · transformation
tough-lovepermissiveness
Tolerance of behavior others forbid
permissive parenting · indulgence · coddling · enabling · spoiling
tough-loveunconditional acceptance
Embrace requiring nothing in return
tenderness · nurturing · warmth · gentle encouragement · cushioning
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