"Research by the APLUS project out of the University of Arizona shows that your parents’ financial behavior is one of the biggest influences on how you will approach money as an adult. The roles and responsibilities your parents took on provided a template that you will either repeat (or reject) in your own life."

How Heavy Is Your (Money) Baggage? | LearnVest Blog

Yup. And learning how to reject these bad patterns is the toughest part…