I used to do very well but finding it increasingly difficult to put up with they constantly wanting stuff.
Ah, grasshopper, but do you ask yourself what it is you're not giving them, such that they seek pecuniary satisfaction in its place?
They are pointing a reality : conditional love is indeed very expensive financially. I think that is what they have been raised to get into, to get used to, and to seek.
I refuse to be controlled and under the thumb they don't like that, they like saps they can break and turn into YES men.
Social and religous programming, you should get married, have children and never have any fun ever, I prefer my way. Yes I'm going to die a lonely death, but then I'll be dead so not like I'll care right after