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[quote=Anonymous]Never. They were worried I'd married a poor man and was going to be poor, but now they've figured out that we actually have a similar lifestyle to theirs (but it costs more, given we have kids), they feel much better, and don't say a word. It's all about the lifestyle differential. As soon as yours is different from theirs, you're going to get comments either way from a certain type of anxious or jealous personality. You might think of it in terms of generational wealth - perhaps your parents were hoping that their sacrifices would be the beginning of building family wealth passed down from generation to generation, and so they're not comfortable with spending on consumables when you could be investing in stocks (right time to do so in the coming months!) or secondary real estate. I agree that once they've made their point, they should shut about it, though. It's your money. Perhaps a little distancing right now would get the point across.[/quote]
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