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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I have tended to gravitate to people in our income bracket.  It just made more sense for us to hang out with people who made the same amount of money as we did and could do the same types of things we can.

Recently, my daughter has begun to hang out on the playground with a new girl who is of a different income level and has very much enjoyed playing with her.  Her mother and I have hit it off and also begun hanging out.  I've noticed, we are VERY different.  We approach things differently and handle just about every aspect of life differently.  I've enjoyed the friendship that I've begun to form with this woman, because I find her sense of humor, her love of her child, and our easy way with each other to be very comfortable.

I've had her over to my house last week for a playdate and next week I'm going to hers.

I'm a little uncomfortable about this next step and was thinking of cancelling and making up an excuse.  I know that she and I get along so well - as do our daughters, but somehow the difference in our financial status just seems so large.

Has anyone else had this issue in a friendship?[/quote]

OP, I find it interesting that you had her over to your house but feel uncomfortable going to hers.  I would think it would be the exact opposite.  I would have thought you would feel uncomfortable inviting her to your house because then she might feel self-consious about the income difference.  At least that's how I feel.  I don't invite any of my friends over (except the ones I know really, really well) because I worry about what they might think if they saw our house, because most of them live in modest condos and we live in a huge Great Falls house with a two-acre yard.  DH and I are very low-key, practical, Old Navy wearing, Olive Garden going folk, but I would feel very uncomfortable if people came over to our house.  In fact I worry about losing friends over it if I were to invite them over, so I just don't invite anyone over except my closest friends.  In fact there's someone who I have recently become really good friends with over the past 6 months, but I have not yet invited her over because I worry that if I do, then she will not want to be my friend anymore.  [/quote]

my heart aches for your suffering.  Please pray and ask for an answer.[/quote]

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