Situation · Money and survival

“My parents still pay for me and I hate it”

What could be going on

Financial dependence: Fits if you rely on their money and feel less able, and less sure of yourself, the longer it goes on.

Financial enabling: Could be their side of it. Check whether they offer before you ask, or make it hard to stop.

Financial enmeshment: Fits if the money comes with their worries, opinions or a say over your choices.

Dependence/incompetence schema: Check whether you doubt you'd cope alone in other areas too, not only money.

Money shame: Fits if the hate is mostly shame at what needing them says about you.

Emotional blackmail (fear, obligation, guilt): Could be money used to keep control. Check what happens when you make a choice they don't like.

Questions to carry

  1. The last time money came from them, what was said or implied with it?
  2. What do I think would happen between us if I stopped taking it?

Also said as

  • my parents pay my rent and i feel ashamed
  • i'm 30 and still rely on my parents
  • my dad gives me money and i hate needing it
  • financially dependent on my parents
  • can't support myself
  • my mum pays my bills and uses it against me

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