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Girlfriend came from a poor upbringing and her parents are still relatively poor. My girlfriend and (by Sparky)

 Sparky (0)  (29 / M-F / Massachusetts)
21-Sep-18 8:40 pm
Girlfriend came from a poor upbringing and her parents are still relatively poor. My girlfriend and I (both mid 20’s) are now comfortable, 6 figure combined salary. She has a hatred for anyone with money.

My girlfriend grew up quite poor in South America, grew up in a house with no roof and her parents begged for money etc. She started working from 17 and went to university by night and got herself a degree. We met 3 years ago and are madly in love, I am from a family that’s not at all wealthy but I never wanted for anything and my education was fully covered. We both now earn good salaries, combined 6 figures, and we are talking about buying a house together and getting new cars. We have worked hard for these, I work in IT, she works in Finance.
Every time we talk about it she gets angry and seems to have hatred for anyone that has a house, has a nice car, or nice anything. I try to instill in her to be happy for those people and let’s work hard together and aspire to get these nice things for our potential future children.
This hatred seems to be fueled by her mother as her parents still work pay check to pay check but make terrible financial decisions. Her mother is always filling her with hatred, is there anything I can do with my girlfriend to change a lifelong attitude of jealousy and bitterness?
TLDR: Girlfriend came from a poor family, we now make good money but she hates everyone with money and acts severely bitter and jealous to people that have money, even though we aspire to have money. Her mother is very negative and has a victim attitude.


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