Actually,
the neediness is MUCH MORE related to
the degree of early childhood
ATTACHMENT DISORDER.
This is the best book I know on the topic:
Attachments: Why You Love, Feel, and Act the Way You Do
When children don’t receive SUFFICIENT-FOR-THE-INDIVIDUAL emotional bonding and love the first 6 or so years of life, the neediness holes never get filled and may even tend to get bigger. True for men and women. They show it differently.
As a psychologist . . . I’d probably say that over 30+ years of counseling and teaching . . . more women CAME ACROSS AS desperately needy than men.
Men are loathe to appear needy—particularly desperately needy—regardless of how needy they are. Men turn their neediness inward or to addictions or physical work or hobbies or sports.
FWIW
Quix! Now THAT looks like an interesting book to read!
;)
Regarding this subject? I’m not gonna comment as I just am not.
Gotta go play with The Best Dog God Ever Made...