Welp
Kinda upset my 22yo but think I turned the conversation around.
I made a comment about how when I eventually sell the house, I'm selling it with the Parabody in it bc I'm not gonna try to take it apart and move it.
He was like "but would you ever move from here?" and I said "well, eventually I'll have to because the stairs will eventually get too hard for me" so then he said "but you're pretty active" and I said "it just eventually happens, plus, I'll move if you move" and that's when he said "but the garden."
My back garden is important to more than me and that's clear.
So I tried to save this with "well, assuming we aren't thrown into autocracy, and if you want when I'm too old for stairs, I'll sell you the house at a fair price and you can take care of the garden," he followed with "you assume I might be able to afford a house someday given the market," and then I closed the conversation with "in the patriarchal autocracy, I probably lose my ability to own this house or my bank account, so ask that you, as the presumed new owner, still let me live here while I can climb the stairs."