Affection that is feigned in order to obtain something.
（有所企图的）装出来的关爱
Midge holds her son and her daughter-in-law by cupboard love, having become an excellent cook
Example sentencesExamples
His attempt at cupboard love by saying that a possible anagram of dayorama is ‘adora-amy’, doesn't help.
Throughout Jung's lifetime, most psychologists maintained that children were passive recipients of maternal care and that they became attached to their mothers because they were fed by them (the so-called cupboard love theory).