Personally finding satisfactory references has been of constant importance throughout my life. I've always tried to equip myself with sufficient emotional and intellectual flexibility to be able to cope with the continuous moves that life has imposed on me. This was something I figured out would make my existence viable, when I was about 5 or 6 years old! Substantiation of occurrences made it possible to keep going...
What happens now, when I find myself having to be prepared to give up this skill, because a larger interest and need arose?!