I feel your pain, Jarrod. As a client I sometimes feel neglected by providers when they disappear in the middle of a discussion. But outside of this setting, in the so-called dating sphere, I get the same flak. You talk to a person, seem to discover commonalities, and then *poof*, they are gone. Perhaps because modern life involves snap judgments and about-faces, this is just the way it is... but I don't like it, either.