I also tend to be satisfied with emotional relationships and emotional journeys as the meat of a story, and they're among the major elements of the structure that I track in my head. Plot, to me, is not just the mechanism by which the writer gets characters to feel different things, but that's close enough to be a working definition some of the time. This is one reason I get really upset at things where the plot makes the characters do things that are out of character and that they would not do-- I feel that the plot and the characters need to be organic outgrowths of each other, that the conflict needs to come because you have somebody who would have a really bad emotional reaction to a situation and do something that makes it worse...