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Conversations with unmet expectations usually end pretty quickly and don’t continue beyond one or two interactions. In a lot of ways, communications are transactions, especially when you don't know a person. Once you know a person for many years or many decades, the expectations are always tacitly there, even in simple everyday interactions, or just talking about the weather. There's always an undercurrent of expectations about what people expect of you in general. In the world post-COVID, people say that they want more intimate interactions because they feel lonely, but if expectations aren't being met, it's not going to assuage the loneliness, and in fact, it will make people want to be alone, because there's no sustenance that they get from the relationship. So, if interactions are forced, just for the sake of mollifying loneliness, then there really isn't much to it. People think that they have to be in the good graces of other people, and that's just a form of expectation, but when the expectations are vague, how is it that we know how to get into good graces with people--in the proper way that fosters reciprocity?