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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I gave a thoughtful encouraging reply, but then I saw your follow up post about your income. You have souch wealth and are just choosing to be miserable and make excuses.[/quote]

+1 Your problem isn't that you have a house that is too small.  It's that you have too little perspective and gratitude.  Perhaps your family of origin does, too.

I grew up in a 2 bedroom farmhouse with 1 bathroom.  My 4 siblings and I shared a room.  When we had family visit, my siblings and I slept on pallets in our bedroom, our cousins slept in our beds.  My parents took their mattress, put it on the floor of the enclosed porch for my aunt/uncle and my parents slept on the box springs. The same thing was going on in houses of other family members.

I now live in a 1962 split foyer with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.  My kids (2 boys, 1 girl, all older teens) all pile into 1 room when we have guests.  We have cots we can put in bedrooms/other rooms.  We can push 2 XL twin beds together to create a king sized bed.  We also don't mind to keep the kids at our house while their parents stay in a hotel or with other family.

It's all about managing expectations, being accommodating and being accepting. I suspect, even if you had a much larger house, you would still find something to feel inadequate about it - probably that it isn't decorated as nicely. [/quote]

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