1. “The neurotic need for affection and approval.” This is an indiscriminate need to please others, to be liked and favorably regarded by them. Pleasing others is seen as the way to win love. 2. “The neurotic need for a ‘partner’ who will take over one’s life.” Of this need Horney says, “The center of gravity is entirely in the ‘partner’ who is to fulfill all expectations of life and take responsibility for good and evil.” [Horney 1942, 54–55] These two manifestations of an exaggerated need to belong