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When reassurance seeking damages relationships

I confess everything to my girlfriend and she is getting tired of reassuring me and I am losing the person I love most.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The craving for external validation has turned intimate connection into a source of compulsive need rather than genuine exchange.

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