If anyone can offer insight from personal experience I would be greatly appreciative.
I am wrestling with an unhealthy need for attention from my husband due to craving attention from my father as a young girl. In my case, I didn’t have an absentee father but he was dealing with mental health issues and my sibling acted out very strongly and therefore received much more attention because of discipline - I was the quiet one. As an adult I understand why my childhood was the way it was but it unfortunately did not prevent me from developing some pretty bad character traits in terms of attention seeking. Socially I’m well balanced but at home I am really acting out to the point of starting fights and this has GOT to stop. It doesn’t help that my husband brings his own baggage into the relationship as well. I’ve been to a therapist before but he stated that I was ready to finish up counseling after a short time, and I felt so too because I also ready up on my concerns a lot and so quite a bit of the therapy was stuff I had heard already.
Just looking for anyone’s personal tips that helped them along the way and thank you very much!