The casting director who decided to cast Carol Burnett as twisted theater villain and enlisted Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters to play her sleazy sidekicks was operating on a wavelength unknown to mere mortals.
Having your own money changes the dynamic you have with the people in your life. From parents, friends to romantic partners. It gives you a chance to love and interact with them from a place of choice and not survival. Your money gives you options of who stays in your life.