Read these if you like Stories With Obsessive Characters
Listing 2 stories.
A woman grapples with how quickly time slips by with a new baby, and how to protect her, as her partner stresses over the doom and gloom of the news.
A professor becomes obsessed with his daughter's dollhouse, and he crafts its furniture, keeps it neat and organized, and envisions himself inside it, even after his daughter grows up and leaves for college.