Stinginess, or greed, to one degree or another, is present in any person. Someone is sorry for spending their money or things, and someone is sorry for his time and emotions. You can be greedy by nature, but more often it is a psychological aspect, which is influenced by numerous factors.
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One of the most common causes is childhood injury. Even in a successful and wealthy family, where good parents, parenting mistakes or unusual situations can harm a child. What can be said about families where there is a constant unstable situation and there is not enough money. Often, parents themselves create a program for the child to be greedy for the future. If the child has lost the attention of one of the parents, it does not matter if it is a divorce or just an unwillingness to pay a lot of attention to the child, the second one tries to compensate for this, not realizing that it is harmful. Excessive gifts and fulfilling requests on demand can be dangerous, almost as much as extreme poverty. There is only one way out - look for balance and pay attention exactly as much as the child needs, given his temperament and life situation.
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An important role in the development of greed is played by heredity and patterns of behavior formed in the family and close circle. Here greed in various forms can manifest itself at any age, sometimes quite unexpectedly. When a person finds himself in a situation that was in his environment, he cannot always soberly evaluate it by repeating the negative behavior inherent to parents or relatives. The child could see that the parents constantly do not have money for vacation abroad and they leave with a tent for the nearest river. In the future, he may repeat this model of behavior, contrary to his true desires and capabilities. A person may have money and opportunities to go abroad to rest and he may hate rest with a tent, but he will persistently save money, and either a high-quality introspection or a specialist can help break this circle.
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Greed can overtake a person in adulthood. Here is the notorious crisis in the country, and unemployment, and the people that surround us. Often, our environment begins to demand exorbitantly large expenses from us. Caring parents teach their daughter to be grateful and give them expensive gifts for the New Year and birthdays, the daughter herself becomes a mother, the financial situation becomes tense, but a sense of duty and guilt towards parents does not allow them to say no and give them just a postcard. Savings in other areas are starting. Or a young guy can meet an overly demanding girl who will demand bouquets of roses for every date, and gold for the holidays. After communicating with such people, even after becoming successful and wealthy, greed begins to manifest itself.
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The reasons for the occurrence of greed can be a huge variety, this low self-esteem, and selfishness, and difficult life situations and a simple innate tendency. Greed is not a vice. But in everything you need a sense of proportion. It is quite normal to be just economical and wasteful, but if you have enough money for good clothes, and you wear castoffs and do not save up for something big, or you eat the cheapest food when you have the opportunity to eat normally. It is worth stopping and thinking. And if introspection does not help, you need to go to a specialist.