Well giving space/backing off a bit can be a good thing I think in certain situations.
For example, my boyfriend and I have been together for a long time. A few months after we were first got together I was in a pretty traumatic car accident and he was absolutely awesome and helped me through it. But I never dealt with some of the more personal issues that arose from it, the kind you really can only solve on your own.
3 years later I still tended to hide behind him instead of facing these same issues and just act clingy in general...We live further apart now and give each other alot more space which is great because we needed it. It helped me realize how I had been acting, the bad habits I had made, and begin to deal with them.
But yea finding that appropriate distance, not too far, but not way too clingingly close either, is quite tricky.
