Fantastic and morale building to read everyones replies, and it has been going for one year!

I nearly lost a close friendship when a girlfriend critised my interest in purchasing more property. Her reaction was “dont you think you have enough now?” My response was “Have not got enough to afford the jet to take us away to that private villa in the south of France yet!” I laughed but my friend did not. Interestingly, my friend did not seem to understand why I was always busy, even though I would explain that research takes time and I would still make the time to chat to her about her latest job search or change. Now we simply do not talk about money and I guess I accept the way she is for now, and am thankful we are still friends and find other things to talk about.

Life is full of learning in the most unexpected ways and interesting places.

Thanks everyone for allowing me to see that I was not alone in experiencing the limiting negative responses, which I have learnt to disregard for the most part.

Carmel
At home mum and future jet owner