I actually don't understand what either of you are talking about most of the time, or your motivations, but in individual cases where we are directly looking at something, we can communicate about it.
It's not that someone of the old demons offering you "women, wine and money" are always trying to rip you off in some way. They are persons who like these things, that's why they became demon lords. They look at you and offer the things they value, because they may actually want to see you gain success. In the process they may gain something, or they do it for amusement.
With me, I've been told the illuminatis don't go near me in the physical because I am a "boy scout", but at the same time those entities on the astral are often addressing me by my past life personalities. They don't care about who I am now, they see the ripper, the french serial killer, the whore, the witch the persons I was before and talk as if they are talking to that me. I assume it's the same for others.
I think anon has bad self confidence right now, I can sense it sometimes, but maybe I'm so used to this demon view that I also just look at potential and not the 3D person. I want you to rise up and see that potential so you can use it, in my case it's just "sympathy for agency", seeing that someone could take charge of things in a way I think I would like to see. That's all.