With respect to a relationship that I've witnessed for over the 10 years (no libido influences), the older female ESE thinks that the male SLI has no social graces and is too intransigent to attract a mate; she has lots of advice for his social life, eating habits and personal health, and he politely tolerates the sermons but doesn't seem to act on any of it. In a way, she tries to mother him and the SLI sees her as trying to be helpful but finds her rather meddlesome and thinks her advice is, for the most part, useless gibber-jabber. They seem to talk but don't communicate; the ESE doggedly tries to advance her points and the SLI tries parry her thrusts. The SLI eventually has enough and walks away while the ESE is still talking "at him"......
a.k.a. I/O