Title: How to deal with an extremely possessive wife/ partner - Quora
Headings: How do I deal with an extremely possessive wife/ partner?
How do I deal with an extremely possessive wife/ partner?
Content: Insecurity arises if one partner feels inferior to another. There are many cases when there is a major difference in the two people’s looks, education, job, family background etc. In such scenarios, the partner on the lower end feels insecure and hence tries to cope up with it by attempting to control the partner. Often, the controlling partner has a troubled childhood. In your childhood if one of your parents had an extra marital affair, chances are you would grow up to be wary of your partner. If your parents pretended to be happy in front of others and were sad or silent in absence of outsiders, you knew there were faking the happiness. And most likely, you would develop the same traits or if your partner becomes happy or gets all perked up in company of others, you relate it to how your parents did and you would feel your partner is not happy with you. There are many such instances where the roots of such behavior are planted in the childhood. So, the first step towards curing this situation is to try to understand your partner’s initial upbringing. Talk it out with your wife and hear out her childhood stories.