You lost me. Can you be a bit clearer please?
Maybe I'm not being clear enough?
I'm saying:
Mother cuts off all money ties in hopes to get son to quit drugs or enter drug rehabilitation - Love
Mother and father give up on son and leave him to drug himself - Tough Love, possibly not even Love anymore at all
You're saying:
Mother cuts off all money ties in hopes to get son to quit drugs or enter drug rehabilitation - Tough Love
Mother and father give up on son and leave him to drug himself - Implying Love, since the above is Tough Love
What I don't understand is how the latter can be love. The problem is really this whole scenario in that there is no alternative to "tough love"; you either care or you don't, but when you do care there's little you can do. What love there is becomes tough love, so it's either tough love or nothing. If this was true, which it is, I would have to change my answers since love isn't an option, but at the same time the whole scenario is flawed anyway.
Another answer in this situation is to say there's no such thing as tough love, which is what I believe. You either love, or you don't because you don't care enough; to love is the epitome of to like and anything less of loving is only liking, such as "tough loving".
Which brings us back to your girlfriend... unless you have another scenario that is possible to evaluate?
