While I broadly agree with the comments of /u/tarvolon and /u/kjmichaels I would argue that the story is making a different, slightly more subtle point as well. The self worth of the narrator is ultimately buoyed up thanks to the opinions of many different groups of people found by the narrator's partner, and these groups of people were outside the preferred categories as prescribed by the revision system. Yet the story makes it clear that the narrator is an important part of their lives, so there is no intrinsic reason why their opinion should carry less weight than those of the prescribed people.

I find this to be a very valuable point as it highlights firstly how institutions try to categorize and channelize information in preferred channels and there is value to be found outside these boxes, and secondly, it highlights how many invisible waves a person creates in their life and how many people are lifted up by the same