great post.
I agree - emotional support is essential to our health. Most of us didn't receive this growing up, or at least, enough of it.
It stems from the problem of us being (for the most part) cut off from our bodies and feelings - too much emphasis on our mind, brain, logic and thinking.
It's an intergenerational pattern - a way of being that gets passed down generation to generation.
There is hope though, as more of us look inward, and integrate the missing pieces of ourselves.