Spouses throughout the ages have noted that they are rarely listened to. A spouse might observe that a window where a spouse is trying to grow some starter plants lacks sufficient sunlight, but is utterly and even violently ignored. But when a neighbor who is anything but a botanist points out the same thing, the plants get moved right away. Even though people have more mobility today, we seem to be isolated more than ever. People have fewer and fewer non-family guests than ever before. Common sense appears to need common inputs from multiple people. Does excessive privacy and isolation impair common sense?

There can certainly be negative consequences of solitude and isolation, being out of tune, out of touch with the culture, and out of step with the community. Over time this will change a person and shape their behavior and make them seem odd and quirky because there will be a natural awkwardness from a reencounter with neighbors, and so on, after an extensive period living alone. There, of course, is a range in degrees of difficulty that may develop. People are also viewed as individuals and may represent varying degrees of risk or value as perceived by an observer. Often those closest to a person will be discounted if there is any ongoing negativity towards them as they may be seen as having a less valuable fount of wisdom and reliability. This might be accurate or it might be a misjudgment because of a prior karmic episode in another lifetime together when an individual let them down or was found to have great shortcomings that caused a significant problem. And that may lead to a mistrust of them in the current life together, that is no longer justified but nonetheless will be acted on because the deep subconscious harbors the prior assessment of their reliability. So here again, opinions and feelings based on ancient history may well get in the way of happiness and success in the current life with relationships as well as almost any kind of planning and life experience.