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When financial responsibility becomes obsessive control

I feel like I have to justify every purchase to myself with elaborate cost-benefit analyses, even for a coffee, and I'm exhausted by my own financial vigilance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Reasonable money management can escalate into anxious over-control that transforms every spending decision into emotional labor.

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“Where Are You with The meaning of money — what it ultimately is?”

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