Okay but you really got the juice when you can get someone hooked on you without having to be sexual. Like your mind, the way you think attracts them so much they love every ounce of you not just the outside appearance.
cliché but classic trope: when the person who almost died wakes up in a hospital bed, looks around and sees the object of their affection sleeping uncomfortably in the chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days.