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[quote=Anonymous]I've got tough love friends. In certain cases I've been the tough love friend. I don't think there's an easy answer here. Personal preference plays a large role. As do a lot of subtleties. But yeah, if I'm repeatedly behaving in a way that's likely to hurt other people or cause me pain down the road, I absolutely want a close friend to be like "this is a mistake." And I do the same for my friends. But at what point in the sliding scale? That's important. Generally, you've gotta be pretty far down the self destruction path for me to call you out, absent you asking for my advice. But ohhhhh man, if you ask for my advice? You're getting the unvarnished truth.

Once I knocked on a close friends door with a new haircut and she literally laughed in my face. And you know what? She was right, it was a bad haircut for me (though it took about a year for me to admit that). I absolutely need friends like that, and want them. It might not be for you, and that's fine, too. 
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