When the whole Charlie Sheen brouhaha (and what a pleasure it is to have an excuse to use that word...) kicked off, I saw a headline that said he's surrounded by enablers.
Usually this refers to the people who allow someone to sink to various depths of behavior, especially addiction: yes men and women who tell the star everything he does is hilarious/right/wonderful. But why does it have to pertain only to bad behavior? We should, and often do, have people who enable us to be our best. Most people might say those are people who tell us when we're doing something wrong or counterproductive, but I think as long as your circle includes some of those, you can also benefit by having at least one who approves of just about anything you do.
I have a person like that, my long-time friend Rose, who I got to know when I was starting out in Hollywood. She was working as an agent's associate and she thought everything I wrote was brilliant. I appreciated her good taste.
After a while I realized that if Rose likes you, in her eyes everything you do is brilliant. Now, I know that some of what I do is only semi-brilliant, and I have people who are happy to point that out to me (some of them wouldn't even use the term "semi-brilliant" but I forgive them), but having one "enabler" has been a great source of comfort to me over the years.
Ideally your parents would play this role, but sometimes they don't. I remember one time when I asked my late mother whether she'd watched the TV movie I'd written. "No," she said, "there was something else on I wanted to see." She had many other good qualities, but being an enabler was not one of them!
My advice: if you have an enabler, cherish them. If you don't, try to find one!