" nteractions that should be fulfilling leave the partner feeling unheard, misunderstood, unable to have any impact on the disconnected party, who lacks empathy or expresses it only superficially and is unable to truly be supportive of others. In fact, sometimes those in Corner One treat others as if they have no feelings, seeming to have no awareness of the other people at all. If you are in a relationship like that you might feel like musician George Thorogood when he sings, “When I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself. "

― Henry Cloud , The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it