Do you have trouble seeing that you offer others the same things that they do for you?

In other words, maybe you appreciate all that a friend means to you. ..and yet you can’t realize that they see you the same way?

I have a friend at my job who has become more and more someone I can talk to about stuff. We see eye to eye on a lot of issues and have a lot of the same values and some days, when I feel like I have no one else to talk to he is there for me. I felt like this for some time but the other day I was blown away when he sent me an email basically telling me that he enjoys me coming by to talk and that some days talking to me at the end of the day is what pulls him off the ledge so to speak. I know he only means that metaphorically by the way.

I guess the crazy thing that prompted me to ask this question is that although I feel the same way about him and about talking to him, before he send that email it never occurred to me that he saw me in the same way. It kind of blew me away to know that I could be that to someone else.