Tough Love - Ballys

Tough Love

Tough love, as most of us understand it, is having wisdom enough to withhold expected or demanded help from a friend or family member not because you fail to love them, but because you do love them. My permitting your suffering for sin, your lumps for misjudgment, your financial setbacks for poor decision making, is the far more intelligent and compassionate thing to do. It is to refuse to rob a loved one of the benefits of a lesson learned in the school of hard knocks.

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True love sometimes requires us to allow those we care about to face the consequences of their choices. This is not cruelty or indifference – it is wisdom in action. When we constantly rescue others from the natural outcomes of their decisions, we rob them of the opportunity to learn, grow, a...