Comments on: What To Do about Your Partner’s Excessive Attention Seeking Behavior. https://thyblackman.com/2018/06/16/what-to-do-about-your-partners-excessive-attention-seeking-behavior/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:47:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marque Anthony https://thyblackman.com/2018/06/16/what-to-do-about-your-partners-excessive-attention-seeking-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-278964 Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:47:03 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=75973#comment-278964 OCD is a Psychiatric/psychological assessment that often does not even apply

]]> By: Marque Anthony https://thyblackman.com/2018/06/16/what-to-do-about-your-partners-excessive-attention-seeking-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-278963 Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:38:21 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=75973#comment-278963 As a marriage, family and relationship counselor for over two decades, I would caution that really needing someone is not a bad thing. Needs don’t change much but wants do. And relationships based purely on wanting someone are not likely to last as long.

What used to be called Romeo and Juliet romance is now seen as dangerous co-dependency. But it is our society that has come to see this type of unbelievable love as a bad thing. Actually it is not unless the relationship is unbalanced – which then leads to unbalanced obsession, jealousy and stalking.

All relationships require quality time but most relationships don’t get it. Or one partner needs more than the other – again not a bad thing, just the differences in the level of need for different people.

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