Maslow’s classic hierarchy of needs has been updated. Read an article about it here. Think about this in terms of what suffers first when a person is under stress: - Parenting takes a lot of patience and empathy. When a parent is stressed, they have less patience, their parenting suffers, and they focus more on issues that affect them more directly. - If one’s life is falling apart, the next realm to suffer is one’s relationship. A person has to think about their partner’s feelings to maintain a good relationship. Empathy is harder when a person is under stress. Therefore, relationship maintenance is one of the first things to suffer when a person’s needs are not being met. - If a person is un-resouced, they may not have the self-esteem to seek out and attract a romantic partner (a “mate”). - Taking another step down the ladder to total depression, a person stops caring about maintaining a positive image, and maintaining self-esteem. Apathy sets-in, and one neglects their standing in the community. - When a person stops caring about being positively regarded by their community, the community will inevitably become more distant, until the person has alientated themselves. Whether a person is ostracized, or they separate themselves out of apathy or rebellion/rejection, One ends up a loner when they stop putting effort into maintaining social connections. - This loner has to survive on their own. - Failing to survive means not being able to meet one’s most basic physiological needs (food, water, shelter).

Maslow’s classic hierarchy of needs has been updated. Read an article about it here.

Think about this in terms of what suffers first when a person is under stress:

- Parenting takes a lot of patience and empathy. When a parent is stressed, they have less patience, their parenting suffers, and they focus more on issues that affect them more directly.

- If one’s life is falling apart, the next realm to suffer is one’s relationship. A person has to think about their partner’s feelings to maintain a good relationship. Empathy is harder when a person is under stress. Therefore, relationship maintenance is one of the first things to suffer when a person’s needs are not being met.

- If a person is un-resouced, they may not have the self-esteem to seek out and attract a romantic partner (a “mate”).

- Taking another step down the ladder to total depression, a person stops caring about maintaining a positive image, and maintaining self-esteem. Apathy sets-in, and one neglects their standing in the community.

- When a person stops caring about being positively regarded by their community, the community will inevitably become more distant, until the person has alientated themselves. Whether a person is ostracized, or they separate themselves out of apathy or rebellion/rejection, One ends up a loner when they stop putting effort into maintaining social connections.

- This loner has to survive on their own.

- Failing to survive means not being able to meet one’s most basic physiological needs (food, water, shelter).