emotional lapdance

Verb: The act of stimulating someone's emotional needs. When you feel like you have to exhaust yourself in a performative act to satify the emotional needs of another.

"I just can't be with him anymore! He's too dependant on me emotionally. I feel like I have to give him an emotional lapdance everyday. The constant reassurance, the unending questions. Why do I feel like he wants me to be like his mother and his therapist?"