We ask him to provide emotional comfort: let us vent our emotions, pat us on the back, and tell us it's going to be all right.
They provide emotional support for those from troubled homes.
They identify as each other's soul mates and provide emotional, practical and moral support.
But I'd challenge anyone to deny that a good novel can provide emotional insights.
It is widely accepted that animals can provide emotional benefits to people.
But he stressed the scheme also aimed to provide "emotional, mental and other support".
And because students exercise alongside others with their same medical problem, the classes also provide emotional support.
Many of the methods encourage participation by the prospective father during labour and delivery, primarily to provide emotional support.
Married daughters, no longer shackled to their husbands' families, returned to provide emotional or financial support for their own elderly parents.
"Comfort dogs" are now being used in court rooms to provide emotional support to children called to testify in difficult cases.
Their parents are frequently heavy drinkers who are involved in crime themselves and are unable to provide emotional or financial support for their children.
