Responsibility

Weird question I know, but I don’t know where else to ask. So I was talking to my therapist, and he said I need to have more people rely on me, or something like that. I can’t remember the exact words. Count on me, or something like that. Basically the idea is that as a single dude with essentially no obligations to anyone other than my employer, and with them, they could easily replace me. I don’t have a wife or kids who need me to feed them. My parents love me, but they don’t *need* me. They can (and do) take care of themselves. If I died tomorrow, my friends and family would be extremely sad, but they’d still get along just fine after that initial grieving. My therapist said that men uniquely have this need—to be counted on. To be needed, not just wanted.

So anyway, how do you find this? If you don’t have a wife or children counting on you, who actually *does* count on you? Do you have friends, family, or coworkers who actually need you around to function? If so, how did you find these people?