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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH jokes that he married me for my (family's) money.

Both of our dads are self-made and both grew up in poverty (though we've figured out that my dad's family was worse off, relatively speaking) but my dad did better financially due to slow, steady savings, investments and a terminal degree.

DH's family still show their roots - most evident socially and in lifestyle choices and in their attitude towards money (never enough, scrimp/save, super cautious).

I grew up upper middle class (but with not so many frills/obvious displays of wealth) and DH had a different experience with a mom working a blue collar job, dad in a white collar job.  Funny because both my MIL and Mom are obsessed with wealth and class; [b]MIL wants to appear "rich" and aspires to obtain more and more trappings of wealth, whereas my mom glories in the few "fancy" things she has and talks about how hard she and my dad worked to obtain this success[/b].[/quote]

Class distinction.  Class and money are very different.  
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