If you’ve been taught that it is okay to be in this self-sacrificed type of environment and stay away from relationships, you will never—ever—grow.  That is not spirituality.

That spirituality that says, I’m going to be on my own—read, pray, do whatever, and I don’t care about anybody else – you are not part of the body of Christ.  You are dismembering yourself from the body of Christ.

Fr. Paul Girguis, Redeeming the Time: Setting Boundaries