Examining The Origins Of The “Needy Woman”

I hear a lot of men express that they cannot stand needy and clingy women. And I do understand and agree with this sentiment. I have made it very clear that one man cannot be a woman’s everything. Even in the slim chance that he wanted to be it is damn near impossible. Men and women alike have so many other obligations, not only to themselves but to their friends, families, careers, goals, and society. So to be solely held responsible for another person’s happiness is a no-go.

If I can be honest I am utterly disgusted with needy women. I have met enough of them in my lifetime and their desperation for marriage repels me from wanting to develop a more meaningful connection with them. Friendships with these women go no deeper than conversations about men, going to bars, parties, and functions to find men, doing the absolute most to attract men, and trying to get you to obsess over men the way they do. All of it is draining, and I am still recovering from these terrible, one-sided relationships; I can’t even watch a woman throw herself at a man on the TV screen without cringing and looking away.

It’s that bad.

But these women are only a reflection of the disgust I feel for myself whenever I think back to the past. Because I used to be a clingy ass woman; not for a husband but in a different way. My well-being literally…