‘Clinging & Acting Needy’ Archives
What’s The Best Way To Get My Ex To Talk To Me?
Question: I am finding myself in a situation where my ex flies into a range every time I ask her why we broke up. She just came out from the blue one evening after we returned from a friend's house and said, " I can't do this anymore. This relationship is sucking the life out of me."We had not had a fight or argument that day or even days before [...]
Why Someone You Love Doesn’t Want You: Pt.3
In part 2 of Why The Man or Woman You Love Doesn’t Want You, I briefly touched on why it’s important to learn to be excited about what IS. This is not easy when you have expectations of others and are always worrying and overanalyzing their every word and action. Just think about it. Every time you’ve felt rejected and unwanted by someone [...]
Will My Ex’s Feelings For Me Ever Be Strong Again?
Question:My ex says his feelings for me are not as strong as before and that he's sorry but he can't pretend anymore. He says some days he thinks he wants me back and other days he just wants to move on because he doesn’t know if he’ll ever feel strongly for me again. He told me not to wait for him or put my life on hold. I told him we can [...]
Help! I Like Him But Not Sexually Attracted
Question: I' m seeing a guy who has almost all the qualities I look in a man but he is too nice and too needy. At first I enjoyed the attention. He was always buying me stuff, always attentive and there for me but now everything he does gets on my nerves. I want a strong and confident guy with a backbone but it seems that these days all the guys [...]
Is He Into Me Or Is It Too Early To Tell?
Question: I'm 28 and he's 37. We met at a bar. The chemistry was instant and before long we were talking about things we've never told anyone else. I felt that we made a strong emotional connection and really saw into each other's soul. By the end of the night we were kissing and making out with some heavy petting. We exchanged phone numbers and [...]
How Do I Stop Acting Needy and Pushing Too Hard?
Question: I'm currently in a long distance relationship. We live in different countries. We met on a dating site and kept in contact via email, text and phone for 4 months. We met in person for the first time last month and it was instant fireworks. Since meeting in person, our relationship has changed a lot; some of it is for the better but most [...]
On And Off Again Relationship – When It Is Time To Give Up?
I receive email questions from men and women, young and old, and from all walks of life who are in relationship that is neither moving forward nor behind, that is on-again and off-again, or one in which one or both people are in some ways hurting each other but the attraction and chemistry is so strong that they can’t imagine life without him [...]
Let Go To Hold On [Save Your Relationship!]
Letting go to hold on?! What the... I know... reads like an oxymoron. But this is probably the only thing that'll save your struggling relationship, so please read on... A bird flies and rests on the shoulder of a girl playing in a field. It sings a lovely song. The girl likes the song very much and decides she wants to keep the bird for [...]
How Do I Tell My Ex How I Feel Without Scaring Her Away?
Question: My ex and I broke up two and half months ago. She said I cared more about myself, my needs and life than I did for her. In retrospect, I wasn’t the boyfriend I should have been. I tried to tell her I loved her but she said “there you go again. It’s always about you, your feelings, what you want!” That hit me hard because she [...]
If You Love Someone Should You Tell Them?
Some of you will say "Yes. absolutely" but most of you will probably say, "No! It'll scare them way." There is "secret code" out there which says if you tell someone how you feel, it'll drive them away. So everyone is holding their feelings close to the chest, literally. But guess what? The very people holding tightly on to their feelings are [...]













