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But that's no foundation for a relationship. Especially one that's looking towards marriage. They quickly learned that they didn't have a strong foundation to stand on. The way she saw it, she didn't want to apologize for her upbringing. There is nothing she could do to change it, and it was part of what made her who she is. The way he saw it, his girlfriend didn't work for anything, and he was having a hard time sitting with that truth. Or at least perceived truth. So they found themselves at an impasse when talking about a potential wedding. Read on to see the details of this argument, and to see what commenters had to say.
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Am I in the wrong because my parents are rich?
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Commenters came in with their thoughts and opinions.
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30-year-old boyfriend refuses to respect girlfriend because she grew up wealthy, claims she hasn't worked for anything: 'I'm not sure what you want me to do about my parents being rich and at this point, you have to get over it'
One of the biggest and most common roadblocks in a relationship is understanding how each other grew up.
We all grew up differently, even if the superficial details are the same. Everyone has a different family and thus a different story. You could've grown up in the same town at the same time with the same number of people in your family and have completely opposite experiences of your childhood. It's the people around us who make us who we are, and that's what we can't choose when we're kids. But when we grow up and start to form relationships with each other, this can be the thing that we have to work through. It can be hard to understand somebody else's point of view if you didn't have all the same life experiences. This is especially true when it relates to money. Everybody grew up with a different relationship to money. Some people grew up, not worrying about it, and others can't imagine a world where they don't worry about it. These people have a way of getting into relationships with each other. It's just one of those laws of nature.
If you can't understand where the other is coming from, at the very least, you can respect it.
Relationships are built on trust and respect, and if you don't have that, then you don't have anything. But feelings of jealousy are also natural and can be hard to get over. That's what came up in this story when the man couldn't quite understand where his girlfriend was coming from. She grew up without having to worry about money and with a significant amount of privilege. He had the opposite of that upbringing and couldn't quite empathize with her position in life.
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