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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who are saying who are your rude friends are thinking of very direct questions about your salary or wealth. There are many subtle ways of asking and conversations often hint at wealth. For example, if you start talking about vacations with someone, it will come up that you go skiing in your Aspen vacation home. Or that you are going to the Ritz in Bora Bora, etc. Or you could lie about those things or downplay them.

People are confused about why a rich person would lie. Here is the painful truth. If you think someone is rich, you expect them to pay for you almost all the time. For example, you have dinner with Bill Gates or Michael Jordan. Do you expect to pay 50/50? Many people expect them to pick up the entire bill. Every time! While a rich person can easily pay the bill, they don't like being taken advantage of. [/quote]

Again, get better friends. Or maybe stop being such a tightwad that just assumes that your friends are just WAITING for you to be their sugar daddy.

DH and I are comfortable (not RICH, but with a good cushion and stand to become much moreso when inheritances come, if they do), but instead of thinking "ooooh, we are so rich, our friends must be so jealous and so ready to mooch off of us," we instead think of how lucky we are, how just one or two decisions we made completely set us up for this comfortable life, and that maybe picking up the check is easier for us than it is for some of our friends.

Sure, we'd get irked if we started to feel like any friends expected us to pay all of the time, but we also have the quality of friends that would never dream of doing that.
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