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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a bit odd that ALL of your friends are living “extraordinary” lives - I find that highly unlikely.
But I think the only answer is to be grateful as hell for what you have. If you have your health, love, and financial comfort then you are truly, truly blessed. Maybe it will just take living a bit longer to realize this.

Life is way too short to spend it feeling jealous of others, and devaluing what you have. Wegman’s on a Saturday night sounds great to me, btw. [/quote]This is great advice, OP.  Also, I wonder if you have a blind spot about other people.  While it's possible that you have one friend who married rich and is very happy, I find it hard to believe that all of your friends married rich and just happen to have no problems.  Everyone has problems.  Money may soften them sometimes but I don't believe that all your friends just happen to have charmed lives while yours sucks.

My sister married a rich doctor whom she divorced after 18 years because he was a self-centered jerk.  I worked low-paid jobs and then later was a poor graduate student for about half of the time that my sister was in this relationship.  I [i]never[/i] envied her money because I could see that her husband was pretty shallow.

Anyway, I'm not saying that all your friends have secret struggles but it's hard for me to believe that they all have it made.  I think you need to work on your perception of your friends.  You may not be seeing them as the complicated fully human people they are.  Good luck with this.  I can tell that it bothers you a lot. I hope you can get past it.[/quote]

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