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Old Sep 17, 2017, 10:38 AM
awkwardlyyours awkwardlyyours is offline
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Current T is quite wealthy, both in general and definitely compared to me -- I think it's a combination of inherited wealth and her husband making $$$$ as an MD. She owns at least one home that's going for close to a million bucks, both her kids are in a really expensive private school and from what I can tell, she's made rather expensive choices in terms of fitness etc (tennis lessons and the like).

However, while she charges a fair bit, she doesn't seem too hung up on money when it comes to her practice -- takes a number of regular breaks, doesn't see clients every day and doesn't always have her schedule filled up completely. But, she doesn't do sliding scale (because she said she found out that people with good jobs were making use of it).

She has though been super -- like really just super-duper -- hung up on how I seem to not care about money especially when it comes to my family. She was really mad -- like unusually het-up because she's generally so relaxed -- about the amount of money I've given my family over time and the fact that I choose to not get paid for work for my family that they use to charge $$$ from other folks.

She also seems to think that I make the choices I do -- e.g. have little or no furniture at home etc -- because I don't have money (even if I've corrected her on it!). And, now, as she's been trying to get me to move, she's been rather gentle in pointing out places that she thinks would be affordable (and be okay in terms of racial demographics [given the state where I live] + all my unique criteria) for me.

So, she's super conscious about how money might affect me. She also knows I haven't saved up anything and so, she occasionally gets on my case to do it. And, she checks in at times to see if I am getting insurance reimbursement for her services (I wasn't but soon will) because she'd said she'd like to make sure her clients aren't paying her fully out of pocket.

So yeah, it doesn't in the least bother me that she's well-off -- in general, people's wealth doesn't bother me (other stuff does but not money). So, her lifestyle seems so far removed from anything I'd want for myself that it's more like I'm a trifle entertained as if I'm watching a movie of sorts.
Thanks for this!
RubyRae