I hate it when people make stuff a competition like that. A kid in my dept does that with everything. I just don't like one-uppers. It's like....if you had a bad day, they've had a worse one. If you just got an award, they got an even BIGGER award!

I'm sure it's just from jealousy. He wants all the attention on them. I have known people who claim that their girl friend got pregnant BECAUSE she was getting married! Like they think that someone is using a child to compete with a wedding! And I have also known people who have specifically waited for something else to calm down to give their good news. Like one of my friends who had just gotten engaged waited to tell her friend bc that friend had just gotten divorce papers served to her from her husband. So she waited so that her friend could have her grieving period and not feel like she was trying to 'hog the attention'.