From One Clingy Girlfriend to Another
4 min readMay 12, 2022
Don’t let your love language get lost in translation.
Clingy has become a go-to moniker for women deemed “too much”. Our minds go straight to the trope of the crazy ex-girlfriend, the stalker, the girl who calls you at 3 am “just to check in”.
The first time my partner agreed I was, indeed, a clingy girlfriend, my heart sank. It took some introspection and open…