the.com/clinginess
Love's smoke detector going off because you burned the toast once.
means The tendency to hold on too tightly to a person, needing constant reassurance, contact, or closeness to feel secure.
from From 'cling,' traced back to Old English 'clingan,' meaning to stick fast, shrivel, or adhere closely — the same root gives us the image of ivy clinging to a wall. The '-iness' suffix turns the verb into a state of being, so clinginess is literally the condition of sticking to someone and not letting go.
- root cause
- anxious attachment, not excess affection
- paradox
- the tighter the grip, the faster the escape
- misread as
- passion, actually fear wearing passion's jacket
- fix
- security, not distance, lowers it fastest