[Why We Sometimes Try to Make Our Partner Sad] While I don’t think that people who do this are monsters, I just think that the reason they do this is more simplistic: they don’t know how to control or handle their emotions so they act them out. Toddlers do this all the time; temper tantrums. And when adults never fully emotionally develop for one reason or another (trauma, emotionally neglectful parents, or coddling parents) they often behave this way; blow up over small things, pick fights, nag, anything to gauge a reaction really.... For them, it’s much easier to displace an emotion, insecurity or a bad day on the partner than it is identify and own these uncomfortable feelings, and then communicate them. Usually these unstable partners see the more level-headed partner as a “safe space” and a bottomless pit of tolerance (kinda like a surrogate parent), and so they feel like they can act and say whatever they want and the partner will forgive them or try to figure out their emotions for them, compared to their friends or associates who will simply stop talking to them. It’s not just romantic relationships either, parents, friends and relatives can be the same way.

Il n'y a que lorsqu'il y a abondance (p.ex. forêt tropicale, sociétés humaines) que la compétition prévaut, c'est à dire lorsque les individus peuvent se permettre de se détacher des autres. C'est dans les milieux les plus hostiles que se développe l'entraide et l'interdépendance. Un comportement individualiste en milieu hostile entraine la mort. Couper les liens de dépendance seul entraine la mort.

L'art est ce que l'être humain n'a pas réussi/voulu exprimer de façon sociale. Ce n'est pas forcément une discipline, mais c'est souvent aussi un moyen de communication pouvant véhiculer des idées pour lesquelles l'interaction sociale n'est pas adapté.