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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, I think some people never really have anything bad happen to them.  I know a few of those.  Whereas sometimes I feel like I've had to weather more than my share of bad stuff and wish for an easier life sometimes.

That said, I do have a couple of friends who had always been "untouchable" in that their lives were pretty perfect and everything had always come easily to them. [b] One of those guys has now lost every cent of equity they put into their new place (outside of the DC area) and they can't move any of the places they'd consider without starting from $0, house-wise.[/b]  And the other guy has been having marital problems lately.  So sometimes the easy-breezy life doesn't continue forever.  (I don't have schadenfreude - I feel bad for them.)[/quote]

I guess this is all relative. I would not consider this being "kicked in the teeth", I would not even consider a job loss that horrendous...it would take something more worse than than for me to wallow in pain over.  Though, as someone pointed out I suppose everyone has a different degree of tolerance for life.

I think I was lucky to have suffered through my first born child being critically ill for a number of years (for which he has THANKFULLY recovered) and after going through that, there pretty much nothing that keeps me up at night.  i do know that I would not weather the loss of a child well at all. I think if I lost one, I would stay alive for the other. If I lost both of my kids, I'd just as soon lay in a ditch and die.[/quote]

Agreed.  It his person who has been "untouchable" feels that that is the worst, that his home has lost equity so that he is even, he's still never been kicked in the teeth.  Even if he had lost so much equity that he was underwater on the property that wouldn't be kicked in the teeth.  We went from 20% equity to 15% underwater because we bought at the height of the market and I still think we're fine.  So we can't move.  Big deal.  We have a wonderful house.  To give some perspective, kicked in the teeth would be losing income so that you could no longer afford the house that you were in, that the house was underwater and that your only recourse was to be foreclosed on with no where to go and possibly having your family out on the streets with no shelter.  This friend of yours is still leading a charmed life, just not quite as shiny as it was most of his life, but still charmed.[/quote]

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