Reunion with a mature figure

As a baby your nervous system isn't fully developed yet.
When you feel stress, you need touch.
Real touch, soft, slow, friendly, safe touch.
You're held by a caring being much larger and stronger than you.
The gentle motion and smiling face is comforting to you.
You feel the stress ebbing away.

As you grow older and stronger, it is expected that you become that large strong being. Able to hold the one that needs comforting.
Where does the mature person go when it needs to get rid of stress?
Does it fight? Flight? or freeze?

The remnants are still there. Unconsciously you keep searching for that large and strong being that can hold you. Somehow you expect it to be there. To pick you up and make all your stress go away. A warm reassurance.

That's what people are paying lots of money for. That's the belief we hold. That's the stories we tell ourselves. The after life, religion, self help, coaching.

We're all longing for a reunion with a mature figure.