{"id":6052,"date":"2012-09-12T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2012-09-12T01:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T07:56:04","slug":"how-to-reduce-need-affection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/12\/how-to-reduce-need-affection\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Reduce the Need for Affection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What<\/strong> do you<\/strong> want?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Googling “how to reduce the need for affection” doesn’t turn up all that much, and if you ask your friends, they’re just gonna laugh at you. Until weeks later, after they’ve been ditched by whomever it was for them that month, and they come to you, tail between legs, asking “Hey…did you ever find out how to reduce the need for affection?” This has happened to me multiple times!<\/p>\n

In researching reducing the need for affection, I’ve come across plenty of articles that try to dodge the issue by avoiding the word “affection.” They claim people are seeking “attention” or “prestige” or “approval” or some other medical-sounding reward. But I think the situation is a lot hotter than that, and by hot I mean a warm fuzzy HUG<\/strong> — get your mind out of the gutter.<\/p>\n

A lot of the search results you DO get (YGMV*) are content-farm articles on how to spay or neuter your pet (…so that’s what they’re calling it now?) or y so srs<\/a>\/pitiful pieces in the Huffington Post about how to make your man show you more affection (…she really hasn’t figured that out yet?). I lost the very few useful links I came across. But here’s what I’ve discovered:<\/p>\n