Has anyone’s parents ruined their dating and social life

Parents being restrictive during the formative years, stigmatising interactions with the opposite sex

My parents weren’t assertively restrictive. Didn’t directly mess my social life up but gaslighted me into believing that women will make me poor financially or I’d have to be rich to date. This was from 17-23 age. Before that it was plain brute force-study hard don’t waste time, eat only dal chaval type.

This messed me up socially. Only my elder brother would help me and since he was reasonable loaded and escaped abroad long back, got a gf and has a decent social life. I’m still fucked. However my parents have changed after seeing my brother. They still don’t realise their mistake in ruining mine and now I have to find a partner at 28, I’ve never even dated cause of this. Even demanding a compensation from them is a task.

Why are Indian parents like this? Living life socially makes one poor? There’s some truth to this as Indians are born in a very bad situation and need to study hard or make money rather than have an active dating or social life just to escape poverty. Why can’t this improve?