“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
- The last time money came from them, what was said or implied with it?
- 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