I have a situation.
Don't think I'm a sociopath, but I recently found many similarities between how a sociopath's brain works and my own, and therefore consider your possible answer as appropriate to me and the way my mind functions.
I feel stuck in a relationship that doesn't always give me what I want. I usually cut all the ties without ever looking back when I got bored, pretty soon after the connection was made, CBA easy to use - I preffered (and prefer) a pleasant loneliness to a complicated relationship. This time's a bit different. He is a genius, of course, otherwise I wouldn't have felt attracted to him, but he neglects his talents in favor of staying with me, which renders him unable to share that knowledge and therefore maintain my interest. Though I hide it, knowing it would hurt him and bother me later, I'd much rather spend my hours reading and going out by myself instead of pretending to be involved in an endless talk about him, about be, about plans for the future.
The reason I'm writing here is to find any solutions for me keeping this person but not investing that much. Should he know how I think, he'd stop sepnding time with me, and I partly need to learn the piano, in which he's an asset, an extraordinary musician.
Maybe I'm trying to convince myself I'm not a sociopath and able to maintain a lasting relationship. Maybe I am consious of the fact that he killing himself after loosing me or finding out I need him less than he needs me, will be a bothering thought. However, I want to maintain the person, but the thing has become unsustainable for me.
[ in case my english might seem awkward - not a native speaker ]