text:  but you're a grown-up, and I raised you the best I could, and you get to make your own choices, sometimes we'll say, let me help you with that down payment of your first house, or let me buy you that first car, and it's going to come with some strings to it, because that's the next way I can control you. I can just be overly generous, right? And there comes a moment when, is that $50,000, would that be nice? Yes. Is it worth losing my relationship with my parents? Nope.