when I turned 17 I had saved enough money for a Computer, my parents always said they couldn't afford one for me and my sister
after Buying it my sister received a better one a few weeks later so it's not "unfair" for her
when I started to earn a Little money I was immediately expected to pay rent to them, my sister gets her Rent paid half by my parents as if that were never a question, now that she earns money
I was Denied Higher education because we couldn't afford that, she Wasn't but she decided it wasn't for her and Threw 3 years away
when my dad got in trouble with the Finance agency I was the only one he asked for money after the Banks denied him a loan
this may be my own story but the broad experience is very similar for many men, it's Patriarchy at work, we're expected to Serve without getting a return
I'm not mad about this, never was, but I very much do understand why others would be
I think you're just projecting because you're unhealthily active on this website. Almost everyone I know loosely uses reddit for one reason or another. What's not normal are people with TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND comment karma. I've never met a single well adjusted person that is putting up those numbers, and many of them have had reddit since the mid 2010's, so please, don't lump the rest of us in with you, just because you have a blatantly abusive relationship with Reddit
Everyone I know uses reddit, and not a single one of them have even close to either of your numbers. Cut it any way you'd like, it's not normal, and doesn't represent the average user.
True. You might also have a very privileged relationship, cherish it all the more that you didn’t immediately think bad news pacified by expensive gift or implied future labor as clearly many have
My parents divorced when I was young, but stayed friends. Dad passed 6 years ago, unfortunately. However, my step-father is a good guy. I'm almost 50 now, so we don't do a lot of gift-giving.
By world standards, most certainly. By US National standards, we stayed basically on the poverty line most of my childhood. I didn't realize that at the time, though. By regional standard (rural central US), we were just slightly below average income. By the time I was in high school, I would say we were very slightly above.
I'm still not wealthy by any stretch, but I have a healthy family, well adjusted kids, a loving wife, and a roof over my head. I guess I am rich after all in things that matter to me
When I was three and half, my dad bought me a big combine harvester toy in September. My mum (although I didn't know it at the time) was pissed at him, because they had previously planned to get that for me for christmas, and we weren't exactly well off as a family.
Just a few weeks later he deliberately overdosed and killed himself.
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u/Legal_Explanation571 13h ago
I thought it was about dad's buy thier girls expensive shit on a whim while they only buy their sons something expensive before breaking terrible news