Typically, routine things that you're used to doing start to annoy possessive partners. They will constantly tell you what it is about your behaviour towards others that is not desirable to them, or how you should be handling so-and-so situation and so-and-so person. They see your friends and even family as competition and want to be your top priority no matter what.

"My ex-girlfriend destroyed our relationship with her possessiveness," kvetches Saahil Mulchandani*, a 23-year-old Delhiite. "I was made to account for every minute of the day spent away from her, she would go through my cell phone and God forbid I said I was meeting one of my gal pals for lunch or something! I was taking so much flack from her it almost made me want to cheat -- I was paying the price anyway, so why not have some fun on the side? The relationship got to be such a pain in the a**, I finally called it off. And when I did, she accused me of falling for someone else! To this day she believes that I was fooling around with another girl and that's why I left her!"