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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Either stand up for her or stop hanging out with them. 
I bet their daughter hates having to compete with her friend as much as your kid hates losing. What kind of messed up family is this? 
My aunt's husband is extremely competitive and it is exhausing. Nothing can ever just be fun. Even a puzzle is a competition on who can get the border done first, who gets the last piece!! UGH. no thanks. [/quote]

We stopped hanging out with a family like this. In hindsight? They were competitive pre-kids and it rubbed us the wrong way, but we never noticed. Interrupting vacations because they had to run a route to beat someone’s Strava time, sending us their house listing with the paid price after close, asking when we were going to move into a bigger house- everything was a competition.. We had a blind spot for it because we were friends.

Once we had kids, I started slowly pulling back after they obsessively compared developmental milestones of our kids (born 9 months apart, so nothing to compare!), books read, and swim strokes mastered. Once my friend asked for my DD’s swim team time trial results so she could compare her daughter’s results from a different team, I stopped texting back and we don’t hang out anymore. [/quote]

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