Searching For Meaning (Again)

I have ideas of where to continue tracing the numinous relationship experience.

For instance while I said materialistic, scientistic, theories and explanations don't work well for me, I recently rear a fascinating article that had explanatory power for standard gender stereotypes (the classic male trade-off of sex drive for 'greatness' balanced by female drive to protect her reproduction), but also for different motivation between men and women that I observe personally ("Perhaps nature designed women to seek to be lovable, whereas men were designed to strive, mostly unsuccessfully, for greatness"). It makes me wonder if this is part of the reason why female led relationships work for some people.

Another direction: Victor Frankl, a survivor of a Nazi concentration, suggests meaning equals suffering without despair (or despair equals suffering without meaning), which makes me wonder about the relationship between hope and meaning (hope equals belief in meaning yet to come?). It also makes me wonder if storytelling is so powerful because of the hope it conveys, because of the meaning it conveys, which makes me continue to wonder why some stories appeal more than others, and if empathy is one manner by which we attain hope, significance and meaning.