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[quote=Anonymous]Decades ago I was friends with a few women while we were all young and starting our careers. We enjoyed each others company fine but we have all moved on and now some live in different states. They keep up with each other much more than I do with them though because of certain circumstances, mainly distance.

Present day, these ladies are all very successful, they and their spouses make tons of money and have memberships to nice private clubs and go on luxury vacations and their kids are in the best schools that money can buy and excel at everything( sports, academics and the arts).  Meanwhile, I feel like I haven’t moved on much at all. I’m very middle-class live in a very middle-class house and neighborhood and I do okay, but I definitely do not belong to any private clubs and the children are in public schools and they are pretty average with their sports and academic achievements and I still live in the same town. Also, I am recently divorced.

I haven’t seen these old friends in years but all their families will be back next weekend for a reunion and they want to meet up with me.  I’m so anxious about this I don’t really want to go and inevitability compare my kids with their kids and their European vacations with my camping one but then I feel stupid for that and insecure. I just have a knot in my stomach about it. I know this is my own insecurity, but sometimes it’s just hard to hear about their successes, and realize that I am so far from that world.  I wonder often why they even want to include me?  I know that’s the insecurity again.  Any advice?[/quote]

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