What does [可愛が]りたい mean and how to use it?


桃香を可愛がりたい気持ち、抑えられないよ

Touka o kawaii ga ritai kimochi, osae rare nai yo.

The example sentence is like that. I'm wondering if this ritai here is in the
same use as aritai like in [Questions about
ありたい](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/4848/questions-
about-%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84).

What I know is that 可愛 means cute and since を is a direct object particle, it
makes

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    Touka is cute
    
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気持ち is feelings

抑えられ is suppressed, and ない negates it, so it means cannot be suppressed, but
the りたい part makes me wonder.

If the use of りたい here is the same as in that link above, then does it means
the English translation would be

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    It can't be suppressed that I felt Touka is getting more and more cuter
    
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?




かわいがる comes from かわいい + がる, but is almost a word in its own right.  
形容詞 → 語幹 + がる = feel like / act like 形容詞  
寒がる・暑がる・偉がる …  

かわいがりたい comes from かわいがる + たい  
動詞 → 連用形 + たい = want (to do)  
したい・行きたい・帰りたい …  

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    気持ちを抑える
    control one's feelings
    
    気持ちを/が抑えられない
    unable to control one's feelings
    
    桃香を可愛がりたい
    want to fawn over Momoka
    
    ⇒　(Someone) can't resist the desire to fawn over Momoka.
    
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かわいがる comes from かわいい + がる, but is almost a word in its own right.  
形容詞 → 語幹 + がる = feel like / act like 形容詞  
寒がる・暑がる・偉がる …  

かわいがりたい comes from かわいがる + たい  
動詞 → 連用形 + たい = want (to do)  
したい・行きたい・帰りたい …  

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    気持ちを抑える
    control one's feelings
    
    気持ちを/が抑えられない
    unable to control one's feelings
    
    桃香を可愛がりたい
    want to fawn over Momoka
    
    ⇒　(Someone) can't resist the desire to fawn over Momoka.
    
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