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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up UMC and my husband's family was solidly MC.  I lived in LA and knew celebrities and rode horses with famous people and had friends who had private jets, etc.  My family wasn't nearly as rich as many of my friends, but we certainly didn't live badly.  Sometimes I will say something, like relating a story, and it happened to have taken place in another country, or the person involved was someone whose name you would recognize, and my in-laws make fun of me.  I have learned to bite my tongue a bit, because what I perceived as a normal comment can come across as being elitist, even if I didn't mean it that way.  Over time they've learned who I am, and that I'm not defined by my past, and now we can joke about those things, but there was definitely a period during which I had to realize that some things that I would say to my friends could come across differently to people who didn't understand the world in which I grew up.  My husband's lifestyle goals are more like mine than the rest of his family, and we are now UMC (no money from my family, we just work really hard), so for us it isn't an issue, but for my in-laws it sometimes is.  [/quote]

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