^ or professes to have the same feelings.
Having the conversation of what each party expects & wants from the partnership is supposed to give clues to what works well, how it works, what the weaknesses are & strategies to manage them.
Strangely enough, some peeps manage to enter adulthood while unable to self-regulate their current & true state of being. This doesn't really foster the mastery of responsibility.
Responsibility is ofc essential for the adult human to exist in his or her environment & as such, these behaviours should be discouraged & shunned.
Like any experiment or complex equation, communicating distorted information gives false positives & corrupts the integrity of all previously presented data, annulling any actions taken in respect to to it.
Its simply living in futility