What is the difference between having needs and being needy?

Littleknownfacts · 2017-11-06T00:31:17+00:00

Having needs is just needing something. Everyone has needs. Being needy is searching out for a particular person to fulfill those needs, often against their best interests.

Electra_Cute · 2017-11-06T00:24:52+00:00

Needy is a behavior.

PBRScagsquad · 2017-11-06T00:28:23+00:00

Being needy implies a certain set of unattractive behaviours such as being clingy, pushy, always having a certain thing such as sex or a particular person they're attracted to on their mind etc etc, having needs is more like needing food, needing water, needing air, needing shelter etc etc.

Butt-Factory · 2017-11-06T01:00:20+00:00

"Needy" people generally lack the ability or willingness to meet their own needs and instead rely on others to do that, often demanding it.

SpaceWhiskey · 2017-11-06T02:03:44+00:00

Everyone has needs. Needy implies that you’re making your needs someone else’s problem, often breaking social etiquette in the process.

Pope_Lucious · 2017-11-06T04:05:56+00:00

Everyone has needs. Needy is placing the responsibility for satisfying your needs on others.

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[deleted] · 2017-11-06T01:54:17+00:00

Everyone has needs.

Only certain people are needy.

washington_breadstix · 2017-11-06T02:12:51+00:00

Having needs = Being a human

Being needy = Having a psychological dependence on others satisfying your needs; lack of ability to take control/responsibility of your own needs

hyperrreal · 2017-11-06T02:13:37+00:00

Experiencing needs is one thing. Identifying with them is another. That's the key difference .

figthief · 2017-11-06T02:50:15+00:00

How much the one who can fulfill those needs intends to fulfill them.

Maikowski2 · 2017-11-06T05:52:25+00:00

Having needs is realizing it and taking it. Being needy is asking somebody else to provide it and being pissed when that person doesn't not give it to you.

Entropy-7 · 2017-11-06T12:02:12+00:00

Hellboy: Hey Myers, you're a talker. What's a good word, a solid word for "need"?

John Myers: Well, "need" is a good, solid word.

Hellboy: Nah. Too needy.

Being needy is having an excess of "needs" that you obsess about and expect your SO to fulfill which tends to drive them a) away or b) insane.

Everyone has needs but a needy person can't seem to satisfy their own needs on their own; they require someone else to fulfill them on their behalf. They are not independent.

That's two possible takes on it.

Title	What is the difference between having needs and being needy?
Author	slipshodtonic
Upvotes	2
Comments	15
Date	November 6, 2017 12:23 AM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/PurplePillDebate
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