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#228: The Myth of Neediness

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The Myth of Being Needy to Someone Who Is Incapable of Meeting Their Needs

Being clingy is just a stupid term for much deeper things called codependency and severe anxious attachment. In my experience most people's needs are not unmetable. They are meetable. So this is where we come to the myth of being needy as long as your needs are reasonable. You're only needy to someone who is incapable of meeting your needs because of their own emotional condition, which would be hyper independence or avoidant attachment or being emotionally unavailable.

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