Wascally you hit the nail on the head!
Thank you for your post. It FINALLY confirmed what I have been thinking for so long. I am so much a giver in all relationships in my life that I thought that my resenting feelings of two individuals in my life (my mother and my RABF) was my merely being resentful. The more I devled into both relationships the more I saw how similar these two people were. They both believe the world begins and ends with them NOT TO MENTION that this world despite revolving around them ALSO owes them something because it has dealt them both a raw hand. Yeah, this is the part where I am supposed to bow to the master(s) and ensure the future is brigher than the past? I'm all set.
I apologize for sounding so jaded. It is more exhaustion than any other emotion. All of my 25 years have been spent "catering" to one of the other. I quit!