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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My best mom friend is extremely wealthy.  Their estate consists of a 27,000 sq ft home plus a separate theater and gym.  We met in a Mommy & Me class when our oldest kids were babies.  She is so generous in always hosting play dates and inviting us over for swimming.  I reciprocate often but not every time because her play areas are just so amazing and huge.  She also has a full time housekeeper, chef, gardener and a nanny for each child so she doesn’t have to do any clean up herself.

She is warm, down to earth and welcoming.  I would suspect that maybe OP is off putting in other ways.  [/quote]

Well, except that it's quite possible that the mom friend was like many of the PPs on this thread who are just so distraught by the size of OP's house they can't see straight (in which case, they've actually done OP a favor by not being her friend because who needs judgmental people like that in their life?).  The other option is as you've stated, that they can handle people who live life differently but there's something else either OP said or did that bothered them. [/quote]

DP. OP has said a few questionable things here, like her multiple references to her "humble beginnings" and the thing mentioned previously about how are people even having occasion to tell her she doesn't understand because she doesn't do her own cleaning and laundry. OP comes off as faux humble, which people tend to be able to see through after a while. If you have the resources for a 15,000 sq ft house and a housekeeper and choose to live that lifestyle, be genuine and own it instead of pretending you're humble and modest.[/quote]

PP, I'm not in disagreement with you, it's just that the first PP said that it must be that OP is off putting in some other way and I said that 14 pages of this thread have shown that it might also be that people are so off put by the size of the house that that might be all it takes for them to de-friend OP.  I'm definitely not saying it isn't possible that OP is off putting, and I agree with you that some of the stuff she has said is a little odd.[/quote]

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