Do you "cling"?

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How do you feel about the Klingons? I love Star Trek but every time I hear that word I imagine little furry things that piggyback on people.

I used to cling to people real bad. It resulted in almost ruining my social life entirely up until a few years into adulthood.
It's the other way round now people might cling to be but I don't know how to deal with it because my brain isn't tuned to think like that much now.
I still get clingy once in a blue moon (well it happens inside me and I just hide it / fight it even though it's hard to do).

I have no problems with being quoted. Didn't offend at all - I enjoy others relating to the things I say.

I don't tend to get clingy really, people and friends come and go, its just part of life. But I do become attached to those I make a personal connection with.

I've been being unable to respond to this thread because I can't find a way to say that I do that strong enough. The best I have is that when I linked this thread to my boyfriend and said that I do more than a little of both this sort of clinging and the physical sort his response was "Very very very, yes..."

I cling. It used to be worse, but I still do it as an adult. It's very much like a shy little kid sticking with someone they know in a crowd of big strangers.

When at a shoppingmall, I truely hope its ok to wait outside the loo, cause I still do that.


I would also like to know the answer to this question.


...and yes, I do cling when I'm with many strangers. I usually stick with the person / persons I came there with, I never mingle alone.

Last edited by Blownmind on 20 May 2012, 10:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

I definitely do that. If I happen to make a friend at school, I usually cling to them so as to not lose them as a friend. I also tend to cling to boyfriends when I have them for similar reasons. Also, like you I tend to cling to familiar people in an unfamiliar setting because I'm so shy. It's embarrassing but I hate it when I go somewhere where I don't know anyone and the person just leaves me there to fend for myself.

If people say they are going to the bathroom, I usually find a place nearby were I can sit and see the door. If I'm home with people I wait in the living room, or where we were when she/he said it until the person comes back. Don't know if that helps?

But I have also always been clingy in both ways. But after I got a boyfriend, I have noticed I haven't been that clingy the physical way anymore, he is also a person how loves hugs, so maybe I have just found a way to get all my clingyness out of the system?
But following people around like a little chicken? Oh yes, I still do that a lot, when I don't know where to put myself in unfamiliar situations.

I still stand outside the washroom when we're in public, i don't think thats too inaproriate.. But when i'm at peoples house i now stay seated where we were or go find myself a seat if we weren't seated before.

I remember having difficulty finding out where to wait as a kid since i couldn't just go sit with the parents.. also I didn't like having friends looking at my stuff in my room when I wasn't there, so i'd prosume they felt the same. Waiting right outside the door felt like the only option, but a (not so close) friend once told me it was wierd when i was visited her house for the first time.

I don't usually cling to people, usually inanimate objects like my computer or guitar.

I tend to be very clingy (but not in the sense of "touchy" - just following people). I have to remind myself constantly not to overdo it, because it's not socially appropriate. I wrote about it in my blog lol

This is kinda related, but I constantly feel like I respond to text messages, etc. too fast. Like I'll send someone a text, they'll reply about 3-4 mins later, but I'll reply right away, within a minute. Does this seem clingy to people? I was just wondering, because I never seem to get replies that quickly.

I've been doing it most of this evening!
I'm at a friends now for a BBQ and there are around 10 people here, none of which i know. I've been folowing my friend around most of the afternoon because she's the only one i know very well. Right now she's making phone calls for work. so i made mg way out to the deck because everyone else's inside.

I used to do this and now I know to force myself to mingle and it does not come naturally, but I feel uncomfortable clinging to someone too much.

Yes, I cling. I forget who people are and get overwhelmed with more than a couple of people so I don't tend to mingle or anything.