Tough love
Tough love is an expression used when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent to help them in the long run. The phrase was evidently coined by Bill Milliken when he wrote the book Tough Love in 1968 and has been used by numerous authors since then.
In most uses, there must be some actual love or feeling of affection behind the harsh or stern treatment to be defined as tough love. For example, genuinely concerned parents refusing to support their drug-addicted child financially until he or she enters drug rehabilitation would be said to be practicing tough love. Athletic coaches who maintain strict rules and highly demanding training regimens, but who care about their players, could also be said to be practicing tough love.
"Tough love" boot camps for teenagers have been described as child abuse, and the National Institutes of Health noted that "get tough treatments do not work and there is some evidence that they may make the problem worse".
There is evidence to suggest that what the British call tough love can be beneficial in the development of preferred character traits in children up to five years old. However, the British definition used by these researchers is more similar to the concept of "authoritative" parenting, whereas American ideas about tough love are closer to the notion of "authoritarian" parenting, which has been linked with negative outcomes in other research.
Tough Love (TV series)
Tough Love is an American reality television series that airs on VH1 and premiered on March 15, 2009. The host and matchmaker of the show is Steven Ward of the Philadelphia based Master Matchmakers. Steven Ward's mother, JoAnn Ward, offers relationship advice.
Season 1
The first season premiered on March 15, 2009, and featured eight women seeking relationship help.
Season 2
The second season premiered on November 15, 2009, and featured nine women seeking relationship help.
Season 3
The third season was announced before the second season had completed. It was the first season to include couples, and premiered April 12, 2010.
Season 4
Season 4 of Tough Love Miami premiered on October 2, 2011.
Season 5
Season 5 of Tough Love was set in New Orleans and premiered in summer 2012
Season 6
Season 6 features both guys and girls.
References
External links
Tough love (disambiguation)
Tough love is a term used in behaviour modification
Tough Love may also refer to:
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by Before Dark
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by Hamell On Trial
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by Flipsides
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by Monkey House
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by I Am Hunger
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by Bellamy Brothers
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by Patty Smyth
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by Idle Cure
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by Kiss
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by Jessie Ware
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by Mobb Deep
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by The Flipsides
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by Troy Rodriguez
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by Forever The Sickest Kids
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by Plan B
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by Gala
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by Devin The Dude
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by Squeeze
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by Casey James
Tough Love
by: Before DarkTough love
You keep on telling me lies I can fantasize, but know I realize
You're still hungry for my love, but you should've ate huh, huh
Tough love
I keep on (I keep on) letting you back (letting you back) thats so whack
(thats so whack) but my heart attacks (but my heart attacks)
It don't matter what you do, never gon' get back with you, so keep on
starvin' just to prove
Tough love
He said don't wear no tight shirts, tight skirts and don't flirt be home by
eight I won't wait and don't make me bang on you
When I fell in love with you it was voodoo, I didn't know the things that you
You said you'd always be there, always give a care, but now you have no spirit
ain't no fair
Tough love
You keep on telling me lies I can fantasize, but know I realize
You're still hungry for my love, but you should've ate huh, huh
Tough love
I keep on (I keep on) letting you back (letting you back) thats so whack
(thats so whack) but my heart attacks (but my heart attacks)
It don't matter what you do, never gon' get back with you, so keep on
starvin' just to prove
Tough love
I was so beady eyed, I'm too shy, I just won't fight and let you tell me off
on and all around, one day I'll leave and never be found
I'll pack my bags, be out, say please, you never knew I'd leave so weak
If you coulda, shoulda, woulda been a real man to stay with you I do all that
I can
Bridge-
Let me tell you what I mean when I say that I watched you plead away from me
And you really, really gonna be starvin' baby
Now you wanna get back with me you have you friends keep pagin' me, but this
star athlete can take his cletes and run
Tough love
You keep on telling me lies I can fantasize, but know I realize
You're still hungry for my love, but you should've ate huh, huh
Tough love
I keep on (I keep on) letting you back (letting you back) thats so whack
(thats so whack) but my heart attacks (but my heart attacks)
It don't matter what you do, never gon' get back with you, so keep on
starvin' just to prove
Tough love
Rap-
It's 365, 52, then 7, I 'm the closest you can get without
dyin' and goin' to heaven
I was you caramel kisses and your chocolate eclairs, but you still lyin'
telling friends you saw my underwear
When the waitress asks you for your order, you checking me, slim fem', brown
skin, but there is much, much more to me
What you want from me, who you want me to be, but I can clearly see you love
is no purpose it's on B.D.
Bridge-
Let me tell you what I mean when I say that I watched you plead away from me
And you really, really gonna be starvin' baby
Now you wanna get back with me you have you friends keep pagin' me, but this
star athlete can take his cletes and run
Tough love
You keep on telling me lies I can fantasize, but know I realize
You're still hungry for my love, but you should've ate huh, huh
Tough love
I keep on (I keep on) letting you back (letting you back) thats so whack
(thats so whack) but my heart attacks (but my heart attacks)
It don't matter what you do, never gon' get back with you, so keep on
starvin' just to prove