It may have played a part in all of this...

When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When (…) we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners (…) until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfilment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship (…).