The OOP Relationship

A developer was explaining to his date why his last relationship failed:
“Listen, she had too many private members and refused to expose any public interface. I tried to inherit from her, but there was no proper polymorphism — she only had one form and it was always ‘headache’. Every time I wanted to call a method, there were like 17 layers of abstraction and boilerplate excuses. In the end I had to refactor the whole thing, but the legacy code was so tightly coupled it segfaulted my emotions. Now I’m just looking for someone with loose coupling and good encapsulation… but who’s still down for some late-night debugging.”