A Reading Relationship

What is your relationship with your reader?
(Referencing Billy Collin's The Flight of the Reader)

In general, I would say my reader is a like cricket.  It's not like I do not have a relationship with my reader, but usually the emotion does not run deep.  My reader is always there. He or she is consistent, always listening and waiting to see what I write next.  For school essays in particular, my reader observes and reads what I'm trying to convey, but usually the relationship stops there.  It isn't until I am passionately writing something that my reader morphs into a bluebird or a wild parrot.  More likely, my reader would be a "wild parrot digging your [its] claws into my loud shirt".  It could be when I'm writing about a cause that I feel strongly about or a letter I'm writing to someone important in my life.  If I write about something I care about, my reader is more likely to care about it too.  If my reader is more invested in what I'm writing, they become more active in it, not just simply reading what is on the page.  It isn't until I get emotional with my own writing that my reader becomes as well.  I want to be more connected with my reader rather than just preaching to a mundane choir but often it ends up being more of a platonic relationship with no strong feelings.