Running is a great thing for stress :-) I agree with the previous poster, it doesn't sound overly needy. Everyone is a little needy sometimes... Part of being human... Part of being a social animal and so on and so forth. I'm sorry that you feel like he doesn't really understand :-( Er... How do you mean he doesn't understand? Do you mean about the cravings, or about things that you talk to him about more generally? It might be that there is a communication problem that could be sorted...