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[quote=Anonymous]We're hosting my side of the family soon and while they're well-intentioned, they can get a little nosy about our finances; the last few visits I've been uncomfortable with the random unsolicited advice about savings targets, when it would be good for us to buy a house, how DH & I should be filing our taxes, whether we should pay for parking, etc. I try to be vague but they seem to always get more info out of DH than me and I just would like to cut the subject off. We don't have anything to hide, our finances are in good order, but I just don't feel comfortable discussing it in detail with my family. We have somewhat different values when it comes to money and we also face different circumstances (my other siblings are still on the parents' car insurance & phone plans) so their advice can be a little out of touch and it just comes off as if they're worried about us, unnecessarily, and think we should come back onto the family accounts.

How do you cut this sort of thing off? I don't want to be rude but it's just kind of condescending to be treated like we must be doing it wrong since we're doing it on our own. [/quote]

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