The Cost of Love? The Cost of Spoiling Your Princess

I've thought about this a lot. Especially while raising my children-for I certainly didn't want to have a child grow into an adult and have the feeling that just 'cause they want it, or 'cause their friends/peers have it-doesn't mean they should have it or even need it. Let's face it, when one person has strep throat-they need an antibiotic. What's good for one, isn't necessarily good or needed for another.

So yesterday I heard a song (first time for me to hear it-don't know how long it's been around) that well describes the problem of letting someone excessively have their own blessed way...

Thanks Tim McGraw- It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You!

I spent fifteen hundred dollars on your damn dog's collar
Put new spinners on your escalade
I swear I almost started cryin'
when you brought up buyin' diamonds
Lord I'm spending more than I'm getting paid
You got more purses than Versace
Got more rings that Liberace
Fill your closets full of fancy shoes
All my credit cards are cookin'
Girl you don't know what your puttin' me through
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you

You got me walkin' past the fellas
Holdin' drinks with pink umbrellas
on some island that I can't even spell
Then we slide over to Gucci
Right before we go for sushi
That's a version of my personal hell
You just spent all day long trying on Louis Vitton
There's a thousand things that I'd rather do
Lord my mom would beat me senseless
if she saw what I was spending on you
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you

Your gonna break my bank before too long
I'm taking out a loan
But when you turn your kind of lovin' on
Honey I just can't say no, no no no no no no

Your gonna break my bank before too long
I'm running out of dough
But when you turn you kind of magic on
Honey I just can't say no, no no no

Maybe I'll play the stock market
Put some money in my pocket
ain't no telling what your gonna need next
I need to steal a Sherman tank
just to break into a bank
I pray to God this song will be a success
All my buddies think it's funny
'Cause I'm spending all my money
On some honey like there's something to prove
Cause for a little of your lovin'
there ain't nothing much that I wouldn't do
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you
No no no no
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you

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