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The person who cuts off from his or her family is not any more independent than the one who never leaves home.  They are both reactive to a huge degree of fusion.  Relationship “nomads,” or serial monogamists and hermits all represent versions of intense cutoff.  One who cuts off from parents is vulnerable to impulsively getting into an emotionally intense marriage that ends in the cutoff of divorce. – Murray Bowen, 1976, “Family Therapy in Clinical Practice” (New York:  Aronson), p. 382, 383

The Eight Concepts of Bowen Theory, Roberta M. Gilbert, M.D., page 60