How Codependency, Enabling, and a Lack of Boundaries & Accountability are Blurring the Lines Between Healthy Detachment and Tough Love.
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Detachment Definition
1. A feeling of emotional freedom resulting from a lack of involvement in a problem or situation or with a person.
2. Objectivity: that is, the ability to consider a problem on its merits alone. Also called intellectual detachment.
Tough Love Definition
1. The fostering of individuals’ well-being by requiring them to act responsibly and to seek professional assistance for their behaviors. Often, strict oversight and restrictions of personal freedom and privileges must be willingly accepted by the target individual. Tough love is typically a stance taken by families of adolescents or young adults with a prolonged history of mental health behavior or alcohol and drug use.
“Tough Love is when a family realizes that helping a person stay sick is not love”.
Consequences Definition
1. an event, state, or circumstance that follows from some other event, state, or circumstance.
2. in a conditional proposition of the if…then form, the statement that follows the connective then. The consequent is what is expected to be the case given that the antecedent (the statement following if) is true. For example, in the conditional proposition, If Socrates is a man, then he is mortal, the statement he is mortal is the consequent.
Boundary Definition
1. A psychological demarcation that protects the integrity of an individual or group or that helps the person or group set realistic limits on participation in a relationship or activity.
Accountability Definition
1. The extent to which an individual is answerable to another (e.g., a supervisor, official review body, a group of peers) for his or her behavior, decisions, or judgments. In groups, accountability is influenced by anonymity and the extent to which the contributions of each member of the group are clearly identifiable.
