If only people were actually self aware enough to realize this about themselves they wouldn't be so many relationships that are like two broken glasses, clinking, as they ask the other for what they can't provide themselves:
A drink.
In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty. The only relationship that means anything in this realm, at this moment, in this Game we are playing using our Souls as credits is the one with Self. Build that and the rest falls in to place, real quick. Without it illusions run rife...