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.
Compassion might make somebody feel better, but without tough love nothing will actually get done.
Tough love is as effective as compassion.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
Since it was my time of the month, he gave me some tough love...