tough love
noun [U]Definition
› the fact of deliberately not showing too much kindness to a person who has a problem so that the person will start to solve their own problemCounselling and psychotherapy
(Definition of tough love noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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