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[quote=Anonymous]My DH's mother was terrible about this. DH grew up poor.  One time we were visiting his mom, and she was telling me about why she was estranged from DH's sister: that the sister was always jealous about this or that, including how spoiled my DH was as a kid.  His mom told me about how DH was on a sports team at the Y, and the coach set up a tour through europe for them, and the sister was so jealous because his mom paid for him to go to europe.  I thought: what a nice story because i know that must have been tough for them back in the 80s.  And DH doesn't have many happy stories from childhood.  So i brought it up with my DH later, and he looked like someone had punched him in the gut.  He  said that he busted his butt fundraising for that (very cheap - staying at exchange families, etc) trip, including asking local businesses.  He had a sports doctor because of some injuries from said sport, and that doctor gave him $500 (!!!) for the trip.  In 1987.  His mom, he thinks, gave him maybe $50.  DH had a pretty bitter relationship with his mom, who was neither financially nor emotionally supportive (as demonstrated by her revisionist parenting history).  [/quote]

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