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Plonis
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 Thu, May 30 2013, 3:59 pm
Haven't posted here in ages, but occasionally come and read.
I just have to comment on this after seeing it misused again.
Tough love is when you are firm with someone WHEN YOUR LOVE IS CONFIRMED. Otherwise it's not tough love. It's just being harsh.
If the other person (child, spouse, or anonymous internet poster) is not first assured that you truly love them, you are not giving them tough love. You are being mean.
Thank you.
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5*Mom
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Thu, May 30 2013, 4:05 pm
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You can post that 13 times!
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chocolate moose
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Thu, May 30 2013, 8:27 pm
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How does a child or spouse not know u love them?
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mgs
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Thu, May 30 2013, 8:31 pm
| chocolate moose wrote: | | How does a child or spouse not know u love them? |
You'd be surprised, but that's what happens if u x express it enough.
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5*Mom
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Fri, May 31 2013, 4:36 am
| chocolate moose wrote: | | How does a child or spouse not know u love them? |
I think OP's referring to poster-to-poster "tough love."
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Tablepoetry
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Fri, May 31 2013, 4:39 am
| chocolate moose wrote: | | How does a child or spouse not know u love them? |
Really? Haven't you read enough threads here to realize there are countless loveless marriages, where the spouses are either antagonistic or merely indifferent to one another? (maybe they love each other, but the other doesn't feel it)
And havent' you come across countless threads where people discuss barren childhoods, with parents too busy or too disfunctional to pay any attention to them? (again, maybe there's love in the parent's heart, but it isn't making its way to the kid)
Unfortunately, many many children and spouses feel their parents/spouses don't love them. Even more tragic, sometimes they are right.
I agree with the op, in such cases, being tough to the other is not tough love, it's just tough.
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imaima
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Fri, May 31 2013, 4:48 am
| chocolate moose wrote: | | How does a child or spouse not know u love them? |
they might know, but an anonymous poster? 
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