I don't really have an obsession with shoes. I like cute shoes, just as I like cute clothes, but I don't think it's really obsessive or anything.
However, I have trouble finding shoes that I like, that also fit. I wear a wide-width shoe, and most of the cute shoes come in medium widths only. Those are just too narrow and painful for me to wear, or I will buy (in certain styles I can get away with this) a half to a full size larger just to get the width, but they're still a bit too narrow. So for me shopping for shoes is often an exercise in frustration. Too many of the wide-width shoes are "granny shoes" and really dowdy and ugly.