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Attachment problem......?

Me and my partner are 21 years old. He is very clingy of me, and gets upset when I leave (e.g. to go to work). He can be passive aggressive when angry and is not comfortable expressing his emotions and feelings. What can I do to help him in these situations?

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  • 9 years ago
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    He sounds really insecure. That's not something that you can change over night. He sounds like he internalizes his problems. If you want to help him, you have to get him to communicate with you. Ask him how he is and do a little probing to get him to open up. I wish people would do the same for me, because I struggle with a similar problem. Except I'm not clingy, because I have enough support to the point where I'm not in that strong of a need to be close to someone like your boyfriend. If you don't want him to be so clingy when you leave for work, you have to gently tell him.

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