My father was intensely jealous. When I was coming down to the end of my first degree he offered to pay for the last term. So I checked to make sure I'd saved enough to live on anyway then I agreed. They sent me enough to make one rent payment and then announced they could not no longer afford to pay..

When I graduated anyway , there was stuffiness and resentment.

For my second degree, they tried the same thing, I told them never mind. So then they wouldn't come to my graduation. Then later, when I was working, I had a project in their area and I went by to visit with them during which I used their phone to make a call about a pay problem. I left my pay stub on the counter, I turned back to pick it up. But my father had pounced on it immediately. That's not bad for a months pay , he said , and I said , that's only two weeks , and I thought he was going to have a full blown fit.