Ultimately, we do not want a “mom” we want to feel good.
Having actionable ways to improve our health, clearly makes feel good. And it gives the kind of security love may give. We feel comforted by the idea that our needs are taken care of. By security. By the option to control our fate.
There is research showing that people feel comforted by money when they are socially isolated.
The concept is very similar. We need people fr our phisical needs. But money gives many things that people provide. Access to resources, and getting what one needs in life. Hence money gives the same kind of comfrot.
Here are the reseArch works showing this.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201001/money-makes-rejection-less-painful