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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've noticed that it often happens such that of 3 siblings 2 end up with promising careers and wealth and one gets left behind or one from a group of well-to-do siblings ends up poor. [b]I can't imagine how difficult these situations must be.[/b]

I don't think expeiencing wealth disparity within a family is easy to bear. I know a lady who grew up upper middle class and then fell into a LMC existence when her father unexpectedly died. Her older siblings were old enough to establish themselves in an UMc lifestyle but she was too young and traumatized by her fathers death. She spent her youth drinking and partying and finally whacked up with a LMC man without a college education and trailer trash roots. She got him to cut off ties with his family and she isnt on speaking terms with her own siblings. When you hear her talk you'd know she never got over losing her status.

How do you avoid ending up like her? How do you deal with the wealth disparity with grace?[/quote]

Wrong. What about torture and war and painful diseases?

Different levels of income can be awkward but definitely not traumatizing, unless you've lived in a bubble and are the wealthy side of the family :-)

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