Because she does need IC. She is the one who sleeps on the floor in her son's room, she is the one who doesn't want sex but doesn't articulate a reason. She is the one who rejects the life she has but doesn't move on to another life either because this one is comfortable or because she has no better options. And she is the one who rejects change out of hand. Doc has morphed himself time and again to please her. She stays sour.
