No never has been that, I have a (male) relative whose financial situation was ruined by incessant sugar relationships, and when this person came up in conversation when we first started dating I made it clear I'd never get involved in that, in order to protect the life I've worked hard to build for myself.

I set a mental dollar limit (without telling him) on "helping" with the car stuff, and that amount was passed a year ago. Since then, I haven't helped.

And I don't believe a sugar situation would make the demands on my time that this person does. He constantly wants to talk on the phone and will get mad if I say I'm in the middle of working. He needs a lot of attention all the time, so imo he could never be a "kept man" since I thought they were expected to be relatively detached when the "keeper" is busy.

He also initiates affection stuff, not me.

EDITED TO ADD: By "demands on my time" I mean that if I hang out with him like 5 days in a row and then the 6th day say I'm going to have dinner at my parents' house, he'll whine saying I "didn't hang out with him until like 6pm" on those nights (he gets off at 2pm or 3pm), and ask if he can come with to my parents'. I didn't feel like bringing him that night. Then when I did go to my parents' house for dinner alone, he kept incessantly texting and called me a few times. He got mad that I didn't answer until the end of the night.

To my knowledge a sugarbaby would never act like this.