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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my best friend and my sister both incidentally married rich. I did not. Their lives have changed and I am still striving away in my middle class existence. I really don't want it to, but its giving me a complex. Being around them is too painful. Worst of all my friend is a braggart and my sister tiptoes around me because she feels bad.

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Your best friend sounds like a jerk and your sister sounds like she's your emotional prisoner. Get right with the life you chose and stop striving, period.[/quote]

This is it, OP. Neither path to wealth for either of these other ladies is secure. Or it is, but happiness isn't. I have a friend whose wealthy husband walked out on her in the middle of the night and announced it to her via text. They have three boys under age 7. She made out like a bandit in the divorce. She also feels like her like her life was ruined.

She will eventually find happiness, or not, and so will you, or not. But PP is correct; the only way is to get right with your life. There's so much more out there than whose ring is biggest. Promise.[/quote]

+2. “Comparison is the thief of joy.” I was similar to you, OP. The last of everyone to stay single, working while other friends became SAHMs, some with help... it was hard sometimes not to feel resentful about why them and not me. Now it’s 20-something years later and one friend’s husband left her and they’re going through a bitter divorce, another lost her mom in her 20s, another had breast cancer, some feel like they missed out on more fun in their youth, and of course some people and still plugging along happily. Life can be very random and you never know what will happen to you or anyone else, so just focus on yourself and enjoying what you have. My only real regret so far (nearing 50) is how much time I wasted wishing for what I didn’t have instead of enjoying what I did. You are probably better off than 95% of the world as PPs have said. [/quote]

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