Affections, affectations, affected.

I pride myself in my ability to be unaffected by people. I've always been of the opinion that if a person feels that they can affect you, then they have power over you. Thus I become something that is interacted with, but unimpressed upon. Or at least that is what I'd like you to think. That way you will understand that whether you are there or not, I will be, and that you will be the one needing me and not me needing you.

But that's not really how it is.