A certain relationship between an anxiously attached person and an avoidantly attached person can be alternately passionate and painfully unfulfilling, puzzling both outsiders and its participants. This type of relationship can be characterized by a constant game of push and pull, with the anxiously attached party complaining that their partner is not responsive enough and accusing them of being emotionally distant, withholding, cold, and possibly physically uninterested. The avoidant lover, on the other hand, stays relatively quiet, but in their more fed up moments, they complain that the anxious party is too demanding, possibly mad, and pejoratively labeled as needy.