Great write up! You're sharing views which are so intact to South Asian culture. Living with your mom and dad is a blessed feeling in itself. Your mom is very much same to mine. My mom's always asking for so many things to be done. Also, it feels quite good that yours and mine situation is very much similar. My parents moved from a big city to our current town 20 years ago but I stayed back for work. I only returned right before covid and worked in a nearby small city. I'm also semi retired, now doing some business only. My father, still not 60, is heading our logistics business along with my younger brother. I'm now married and expecting a child within a few months.

So, there are only age differences, may be, rest of the things are quite similar. Even living in an apartment in a big city in my childhood is quite a similar story. The David one was also there! The David for our town house was also there! But since I semi retired last year, my mom got me there for David and too hang between 'good enough' and 'perfection'.