He "needs" you? That is not a healthy relationship. It feels like he's the sort of man who doesn't have a purpose in life and clings to a woman to make him feel like his life has meaning. Am I right? Perhaps you should tell him that you can't serve him in that way, that no-one can.
He might benefit from a copy of "The Way of the Superior Man" and from reading Steve Pavlina's "
How to Be a Man".