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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s very obvious what’s going on here: OP is either not married or divorced but in either case is currently single, and it irritates OP that other people talk about net worth by including their spouse because she or he feels like they can’t compete with that and it makes them feel inferior.[/quote]

Apart from the “feeling inferior” part, this is correct. I’m the OP, I’m single, and I do find data around net worth to be of little help.

Do you believe that one person with a $2 million net worth is in the same financial position as a husband and wife with a combined $2 million net worth?  Because that would be pretty ridiculous IMO.[/quote]

Take a marriage where one person makes 50k and another 150,000k... It's not as though one person is living a middle class life and another an upper middle class life. Two people in a marriage are both in the same economic class.

(Btw, this was me and my husband. And it is trippy to make that leap at first, but 10+ years into the marriage, I fully feel that the money is shared. It just is! I can see how as a single person it is hard to grasp, by when you are married the whole premise of your post feels wrong  We have shared investments and rental properties and the money earned from that goes into a shared account -- how do we mentally divide that?)[/quote]

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