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I Disagree About Clinginess Being the Only Reason

This post was submitted anonymously. Men just feel entitled to be assholes. Their testosterone makes it their human nature I think. Not all men, just the "Neanderthal-like" primitive ones. I have a husband and made him…
Why Do I Feel Like This About My Boyfriend?

This post was submitted anonymously. My boyfriend and I have known each other for about 2.5 years and we dated for 4 months before we started going out and now we've been monogamous for almost 5 months. At the beginnin…
Singleness vs. Separateness

I was talking with a friend recently about relationships. She was telling me how even though she is dating someone, she still feels like she needs to live some semblance of a "single" life. I asked her why, and she said…
How Attached is Too Attached?

We've all had that one friend. She's a lovely person, we enjoy hanging out with her. And then a guy walks into the picture and poof! It's like she was never there to begin with. Suddenly, her boyfriend is her entire…
I Was Too Clingy... So What Should I Do?

In the past year or so, I've come to realize that I am a clingy person. I had a lot of issues with myself growing up that has wrecked my self-esteem and I've slowly begun rebuilding it. However, the remnants of this com…
How Much is Too Much?

You may have friends, or know people are extremely intimate with their significant other to the point in which they must share every single breathing detail with them. I find these couples to be very interesting and in…
Excuse Me - May I See Your Dating License First?

Having recently gone through a break up, I've found myself thinking about excess baggage. My last relationship was filled with it: trust issues, insecurity, his past, my past. It's exhausting to even think about! I was…
Stage 5 Clinger

Usually, it's girls who have the reputation for getting too attached too soon (hence the original quote from the movie Wedding Crashers). But sometimes it's not the girls at all. I can think of five relationships off th…
The Double-Standard to Stage Five Clingers

Everyone who has seen Wedding Crashers knows what a "stage five clinger" is, but I'm not here to discuss Isla Fisher. I'm interested to know whether or not clinginess has a double-standard. I'm sure we all know girls wh…
Should My Boyfriend Tell Me Where He's Going and Doing?

M called me at about 9:30 last night, our first communication of the day. I had texted him earlier, at 6:00, to ask him how his day was. Normally, I wouldn't be pissed, even though I know he has his phone on him at all…