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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I are both private school alums and were married at 26 and 28, so pretty young.  We had already bought our first house in Arlington (without help from parents) and the only debt we had was grad school for my husband. We also have two kids in private school and pay full tuition [b]without help from parents[/b].

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Well, not really since you had no undergrad debt and your parents paid for your education.  [/quote]
+1. I am regularly astounded by the ignorance of the well-to-do in these supposedly highly educated well-to-do areas of the country. Some examples of financial help that are regularly overlooked by the privileged:
1) College tuition, grad school financial help (e.g., tuition, housing, allowance, etc.)
2) Summer housing and living costs to be able to take unpaid summer internships
3) Cars + insurance + maintenance +gas
4) Travel home during holidays
5) Money to participate in activities with friends
6) Clothing money
7) Wedding expenses
8) Health insurance (esp before Obamacare, when kids were booted off parents' insurance at 18)
9) Medical expenses, including dental and vision

All of these things add up. Speaking as someone who grew up working class poor, attended a fancy private school (on scholarship), then Ivy for college and grad school, I knew a lot of kids who were convinced that they had worked so hard for everything they had, but were oblivious to their privilege. And to the the point of this thread, some of them got married young (with weddings and homes paid for by parents), but most did not. They were, after all, in grad school and most married in their late twenties/early thirties.
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