If her life was "lonely but predictable," I would call that together. Maybe not a good kind of together, but certainly together. If you want a crappy romance-novel cliché, it should be "...showed her how to live" or something.

But then again, it's a Suefic. They're not supposed to make sense.

I haven't read Watership Down in years. Hmm. I should probably go and reread it, just 'cause.