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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's nice not to HAVE to work but it makes one weirder and weirder as they age. There is an inability to compromise. Priorities do not align with those of most people. When things don't go their way there are extreme reactions, crying suicide or resort to childish behavior. All those weird tics of youth become exaggerated with each passing year.

At some point the never needing to work becomes inability to work and inability to adapt to changes. The ones who never married become impossible to marry. The ones who did marry end up in a co-dependent drama where they have no normal-ish people around them because they are weirder and more extreme versions of themselves with each passing year. The world has to accomodate to them, not the other way around.
I have known a few people like this and watched this develop over several decades. [/quote]

This was interesting to read because it describes my BIL to a tee, but he is not independently wealthy. His parents have just facilitated him not having to work for most of his life (since his late 20s when he kind of flailed around post-college for a while and then moved back in with them) and this is precisely what happened. They kept hoping a woman would come along and take him off their hands and they did not understand that he had nothing to offer any woman because he's all liability.

Thinking of my BIL as a trust fund baby without the trust fund is kind of funny.[/quote]

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