Really? Is that why I attract clingy people? I keep encountering people I talk to once and they think we are best friends and insist I need their intervention in my personal life.

Usually they are lonely older men but there were a couple of women. One lady followed me through a store asking for my contact details while I kept saying no. People somehow get into imaginary relationships with a fantasy version of me in their minds. And a couple of guys wrote reproachful emails to say I hadn't been a good friend when I only knew them for a few minutes. Is that what co-dependancy looks like?