{Quote of the Day} Clingy Couples

February 24, 2010
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From one of my favorite website, Smart Pretty Awkward :



How to be (less) Awkward: One of the biggest compliments someone can give your relationship is to say that you are not a “clingy couple.” Clingy couples always seem insecure to me—like they are clinging to each other because they don’t have many other friends, or are afraid one of them might stray. Be an independent couple. Trust the other person to make the right decisions when you are not around. Remember that spending a weekend night apart every now and then isn’t fatal. And every once and a while, fall asleep without having a goodnight phone call. If you are with the right person, they will still be there to answer your good morning text the next day.

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Very good advice and very true. I think it’s also something that we gain as we mature – it’s scary at first to let go but relationships can be so much more rewarding when you include other people {not like THAT, you know what I mean!}

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  • dyang

    I don't know. I think there are physically clingy couples (that can be wicked annoying) and then there can be 'clingy couples' that don't always have to be together, but there is that something that cannot keep them away from each other.

    Ever walk into a room,and see a couple that seem so happily content with each other, not touching, not kissing, no sitting in each other's laps, but you feel that synergy between them, it's almost embarrassing for you to be between them when they are across the room looking at each other? I have a few friends (I'm totally not in this mix. When I "look" at my man that way – he signals to me, "do I have something hanging from my nose!?") who are that enamored with each other that there is this "clingy" uncomfortable feeling that they give you when you're in their presence.

    And they do call each other every night – and they do discuss with each other before they make final decisions, in an earnest want to have the other person filled in, a part of the decision, in their lives always.

    I don't see insecurity there. I see a bond that is so strong that other relationships kind of pale in comparison – and therefore – that uncomfortable feeling is there.

    And to a certain extent, even when we see "clingy" couples – isn't a part of that annoying feeling we feel about us thinking that two people just cannot be THAT attracted to each other… and yet – when you first meet that amazing awesome person, and you're kissing on the train, on the street, anywhere, looking incredibly happy – you don't think about how annoying you might look. Most of the time, you're just enjoying the weeee of brand new twitter-paited love… And we even forgive those "new loves" by mouthing "honeymoon phase" or other such references to explain away such clingyness.. fully confident that it won't last. But when it does – you're one of THOSE couples.

    I don't know – I applaud truly happy clingy couples that are clingy for real. I takes real courage to fly in the face of the conventional norm of suppressing PDA.. especially when it comes from somewhere honest…

  • Molly

    Thanks for having me be the quote of the day Meg :) Added it to SP&A’s press page! xo, Molly

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