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What causes this crazy cupboard love and is there a cure?
His loves might, if you wished, be all described as cupboard loves.
"It's cupboard love as brings you out so sharp," he said, his voice resounding in the cold darkness.
But attachment is more than cupboard love.
"You may love me, my sweet, but it's cupboard love," she told him fondly.
In the side cupboard love.
"Cupboard love" is an English phrase referring to affection that is given purely to gain a reward.
But if by a cupboard love you meant something cold or calculating you would be quite misunderstanding the beast's sensations.
"Cupboard love," Jim told him firmly.
"I'm afraid it's cupboard love," sighed Gibson.
"Cupboard Love"
"Cupboard love!"
Cupboard love is a milder version of conditional love, where love is given solely in response to certain behaviour.
The close relationships children can have with fathers and with nonlactating adoptive mothers are informal evidence that a child's love is not "cupboard love."
Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities (1996).
Cupboard Love: My Book of Recipes (1929)
'It's cupboard love!
She did, however, complete a one-act opera, Cupboard Love, and a dance drama, The Fair Queen of Wu.
This is the OFFICIAL music video for Cupboard Love by Hot Leg.
"Cupboard Love" - 4:26 (used as a B-side to "I've Met Jesus" CD version)
"Automatic" and "Cupboard Love" (additional tracks from the "I've Met Jesus" EP) were also posted.
'True cupboard love,' the Rowan said with a wry grin, 'so long as you feed me, I love you.'
Midge holds her son and her daughter-in-law by cupboard love, having become an excellent cook - ironically, her husband abandoned her in part because the food was so bad.
"Gun Cupboard Love" (A-Sides & B-Sides)
Snow on the Mountain Cupboard Love Whispering Wind Stand Up for the Foot Will Ya Won't Ya?