I need emotional support rather than financial

My parents provide me financial support and I'm grateful for that but that has only kept me dependent on them.

I'm sure they have wanted to see me independent for a long time but I just haven't been able to become it. I want to become independent for my sake and theirs.

I just don't know how to communicate to them that I need more emotional support/encouragement than financial.

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G0ddess · F

have some shame you’re in your 30s and leeching off your parents, you’re the one supposed to support and retire them

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G0ddess · F

@thewindupbirdchronicles it’s not about age it’s about being responsible without blaming others

BRUUH

@cyberdude28 It feels great to have our parents love us and believe in us, but you can't NOT do what you're capable of just because they don't. You can do it. Life is not too late. You have every ability to succeed right in front of you. You have a degree, and parents who are finanacially supporting you. go out andm ake something of yourself young man

G0ddess · F

@BRUUH yeah this person doesn’t realise that I’m being direct bc even my parents supported me financially but never emotionally, I resented them only to realise that I wasted my time and needed to be grateful for the way they sacrificed for me, parents are not gods we need to be responsible for ourselves and break the generational curses and help them heal instead of blaming them like teenagers

BRUUH

You need the emotional support of your parents in order to be independent? I'm not trying to be a dick but this is very unusual. What is it about being independent you need emotional support for? Are you saying that if you had the money to live on your own, you still would not be able to? Or are you saying you need motivation to get a job? I don't understand

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cyberdude28 · 31-35, M

@BRUUH Instead of seeing me as an educated professional they see me as a manual laborer after years of telling me to study so that I won't have "break my back" like my father. No offense to manual laborers it's honest work.

cyberdude28 · 31-35, M

@BRUUH What I was going through a rough times in school instead of encouraging me by saying don't give up we believe in you they would say why don't you just quit if you're not smart enough and get a day labor job like your dad. That is confusing as hell after growing up they said study and go to college.

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BritishFailedAesthetic · M

Dude, you should not be living off your parents- I come from a family (especially my wife's family do this) where we always help each other financially to the best we can if one of us is in need.

Difference is we all work and would only give support if one of us lost a job, etc.

Be an adult and start applying for a job.

SamInAZ · 41-45, M

Are your parents NPCs like your pfp?

cyberdude28 · 31-35, M

@SamInAZ No they are not. They are real people just like you and me.

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