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[quote=Anonymous]My good friend came from a family that was successful.  One of their financial successes was from the Depression Era.  Her spouse's family was in poverty during the Depression Era, like most people.  But when you put these two types together, there are different behaviors and different expectations that go along with it.

Both sides are very frugal, but the successful side was accustomed to cheap (or zero cost) fun and frolic (ex: impromptu parties with him made food and dancing), while the other side (who lost everything during the Depression) was emotionally depressed (predisposed then and now), destitute, helpless and hopeless (again, then and now).

It is hard to reconcile something that is so ingrained, even so many decades later, because the disposition about money is spent (though both sides can be miserly and overly generous) and how one spends their time (inattentive ADD - staring at a screen or book or whatever to 'zone out' - wasn't helped by the depressed side) is so ingrained.  The fun and frolic side is like that until this day, and the depressed side is not interested in much but ailments. It can be much like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

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