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He sums it up pretty well, in the words of a psychologist in his play The Cocktail Party. This was before:
"You discovered, to your surprise and consternation, that you were not really in love... And were not prepared to make the least sacrifice on her account. This injured your vanity. You liked to think of yourself as a passionate lover. Then you realized that you have never been in love with anybody; which made you suspect that you were incapable of loving. To men of a certain type, the suspicion that they are incapable of loving is as disturbing to their slef-esteem as, in cruder men, the fear of impotence."
"You discovered, to your surprise and consternation, that you were not really in love... And were not prepared to make the least sacrifice on her account. This injured your vanity. You liked to think of yourself as a passionate lover. Then you realized that you have never been in love with anybody; which made you suspect that you were incapable of loving. To men of a certain type, the suspicion that they are incapable of loving is as disturbing to their slef-esteem as, in cruder men, the fear of impotence."
