Avery Singer experiences her inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by her involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Avery Singer is motivated by a need to work in common with other people and to share life’s pleasures and pain. Her commitments to other people are of paramount importance to her personal development. This dependence may present difficulties with individual self-assertion and make it hard for her to make decisions alone. If she wants to achieve inner equilibrium, she must behave in such a way that her actions yield benefits to others as well as herself.

Avery Singer is attracted to interpersonal activities, but his significant need for inner security may stand in the way of his overtures to others. Since he is highly receptive to other people’s inner natures, he seeks tight bonds with others. He unconsciously needs their psychological support in his quest for himself. Were he to evaluate his psychological development, he would place more value upon human warmth, intimacy, and the need to share than on intellectual understanding or personal freedom of expression.

You work hard to understand the feelings of others. But you find it difficult to empathize and compassionately care for others. You see the emotional world as a foreign place, full of hidden dangers. Becoming familiar with it would present some risks, but it would be more rewarding in the long run. As a result, you might appear distant or uncaring. You might have difficulty establishing meaningful relationships, as you seek special people to connect with. If you could accept and understand your own emotions, you would have easier time dealing with the feelings of others. You have a strong desire for emotional independence, and might find it difficult to see the emotional needs of others. You might even be the first to deny that such needs exist. This results in your dependency on others being unconscious. Because it is seen as a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although you offer conscious resistance to anyone who tries to draw you out of your emotional bubble, you are always making tentative, half-conscious forays into the emotional world, because your loneliness and fear are so unbearable.