Yeah, it's sad that this person doesn't realize that this is not a healthy basis for a relationship. What's tragic is that gender identity theory has sold them this bill of goods instead of telling them honestly that they have a psychological problem that needs to be dealt with, and they're doing all they can to make it illegal for psychologists to give them the help they need. Desperately needing someone else to shore up your unstable self-image is basically the definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

It's like RuPaul says, "If you can't love yourself, how they hell can you love somebody else?"