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[quote=Anonymous]We are the sister in OP's situation. Regarding my family, my siblings probably know there is more money, but not the magnitude of it. We also live well below our means and that probably also masks the difference.

DH's sister is more aware, probably because they grew up in much more affluent circumstances than the life she lives now. They are comfortable by nearly all measures but it is not $20K/week vacations' comfortable. She occasionally has issues about it and will make comments in front of us where she affirms their circumstances and denigrates ours. DH ignores it in the moment, but has vented to me a few times about how she is unwilling to take into accounts the trade offs of her/BiL's decisions. She also expected her parents to underwrite a grander lifestyle, which did not happen. Yes, they probably do provide money to them, but they, for example, passed on paying K-12 private school tuition for the grandchildren. Think this is the start of SiL realizing that they would need to adjust their expectations, that their parents were not going to pay for private school, provide downpayment/buy a home, etc as some of the parents of their friends were doing. Both of their kids are nearly finished with college and that should help them set aside more money for retirement.

It's been fairly manageable, but might have been different if we were the buy the latest model cars, dress in couture, etc folks.[/quote]

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