It can be quite annoying when people do this. My aunt always says stuff like "You guys are so happy!" :heavy sigh: or "You are such a close-knit family" :sad look: I think you can generally tell from a person's tone of voice or body language whether they mean it as a compliment or they are simply envying you. I try to stop enviers by reverse fake-envying them. "Not at all! Our lives are so dull. But I heard you recently did blah blah...it must have been so nice!" : fake heavy sigh: Works most times, they get super annoyed.