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[quote=Anonymous]The thing about my inlaws is that they don't live in the same world as me. They are wealthy (net worth of several million dollars) but because they are not wealthy as some of their friends, they consider themselves lower income and talk all the time about how poor they are. My MIL will commiserate with me about my poor childhood (I'm talking WIC and getting the lights turned off) and it is so strange. Sometimes I want to scream at them, PEOPLE WHO ARE LOW INCOME DON'T SPEND CHRISTMAS IN PARIS!!! Or get new living room furniture every year! But my goal is not to change their minds, it's to be able to coexist with them without wanting to kill them. So I try to see the world through their eyes and that helps with the feeling like I am in a funhouse and the floor is tilting. It doesn't help with the obnoxiousness, but limiting the time I spend with them helps that. [/quote]
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