When you supported her in her latest project/cause/etc, it made you feel good, validated you, your "Provider" role, made you feel needed, right? And the smile, the joy, etc that she showed you when you did...
Same for all the various "fixes" we did for them....gave us shots of dopamine right to the brain. Tickled our deep male need centers.
This is what I was referring to, since I was the same way in my M.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
