Personality Adjustment for Conversation : Page 151

Any one-sided conversation is literally a frustration. The listener feels deprived of the chance to unburden himself; the talker will be deprived of the chance tomorrow; consequently both are unsatisfied. Everyone will, I think, recall this sense of frustration after some conversation. If you had it, it means that in the course of it you have not had a chance to talk about the things which were really on your mind, and have had to listen one-sidedly to what was on the other's mind, but not on yours. This sense of frustration defeats the purpose of talking, which must be to make all participants feel lighter in spirit, refreshed, relieved, renewed.