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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and his cousins are really close. Due to how small the family is, they grew up almost treating each other like siblings. We have monthly dinners, so we see them a lot. Something has started to annoy me though.  My husband’s cousin and I get along well on the surface but I feel like lately it has been a competition on who has what/attained the most. Basically her husband and her got engaged the same year we did, although 7!months later. She  has her doctorate in education. At first when I was being introduced to the family, everyone let me know this about her, even before I met her face to face!! I don’t get why the fuss. It’s not like it’s uncommon. I quietly worked on getting accepted into a social science PhD program, and I was beyond thrilled to get accepted. My husband told his mother and well everyone has soon found  out.  His cousin didn’t seem too happy when we had dinner last month as  it was brought up. When I first met my husband everyone and their mother knew she was working on her PhD!  It is an accomplishment but not out of the ordinary.l-maybe because I feel like  most of my friends are accomplished in their own right and my hubby (Dr)  I didn’t see the hype, of course I quietly worked on getting into mine.  My MIL mentioned something to me that Betsy said, not verbatim but she said is surprised I didn’t decide to stay at home and pop kids out, since my husband is already successful/was financially established when we met.  I flat out said to my MIl, “Heaven forbid others besides Betsy have educational endeavors too!”  My MIL said she never meant anything by it, but I disagree. I feel like now that I’m in this program, it’s hard for her to be happy for me because she isn’t the ONLY one who went this route. I guess because her and her hubby got engaged the same year and other small things have added up, I feel like it’s a subtle competition with her. I’m 8 months pregnant and well, my MIL said there was some exciting news that Betsy and her husband were going to share with us this weekend, I’m guessing I know what it is and so over feeling she tries to out do everything. [/quote]

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