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Why why why on Letsrun message board do so many people boast about how much money they have, their salary, how much they have inherited etc. Never in over a decade of being on Track & Field News forum have I seen someone do the same thing. On Letsrun it's like a monthly occurrence.
RunningFromTime wrote:
I have a serious question:
How do you personally deal with the cultural differences / differences in education? I married someone I am compatible with but comes from a completely different country, and her family is poor. After marriage, she developed a significant / life altering illness and has been on and off treatments since (glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer). She responded to one treatment for quite a while relatively speaking before it came back. Luckily, I am separated from her insane family both physically and linguistically, but I also feel responsible to keep them updated on her health, since she is their bloody daughter and you think they would be supportive of what we are going through. All I get back is abuse despite being literally the only reason she is still alive (bringing her to a country with real treatment options and having health insurance). Complete distrust and lack of even rudimentary understanding of how the world works incapacitates my ability to communicate with these animals. At this point, I have her immediate family blocked on the only mode of communication we had (skype) but it doesn't stop me from being panged by guilt especially if my wife's health takes a turn for the worse. At this point though, I have resigned to literally never sending even a vague notion of communication to this human waste, even if my wife dies, to protect my own mental health more than anything
Sorry to hear that. That sounds like a very difficult and complicated situation. My wife's siblings all have at least a high school education, some college so they can always translate things in simple terms. They've lost family members to cancer and probably other diseases like liver failure. So they have a basic understanding of life threatening illnesses. I've never dealt with any distrust, fortunately.
amhrd wrote:
Why why why on Letsrun message board do so many people boast about how much money they have, their salary, how much they have inherited etc. Never in over a decade of being on Track & Field News forum have I seen someone do the same thing. On Letsrun it's like a monthly occurrence.
If I didn't mention my salary, would this thread be okay with you? I only mentioned it because people called me a gold digger.
Well I will inherit nothing so there's that.
That's the great thing about letsrun. I've been reading this forum since my high school cross country and track days. I lost interest in running after college, but I keep coming back to this forum because there's so many interesting off topic threads. I also like the old school format vs something like redit where responses get buried.
seattle prattle wrote:
investing noob wrote:
Good advice, thanks! I'm a noob when it comes to investing, hence my name. So I don't have much investing knowledge to pass on. I just stick with boring VTI in my Roth and large cap index in 401k.
I'm good with saving and being frugal, that I will try to pass on.
i'm pretty sure that will make an impression on your child and future children. They pick up on those things. I never found that it had to be stated, and I suspect that it would have worked against us if we tried to impart it, as opposed to just living it.
College funds are worth looking into, also, if we hadn't discussed that elsewhere.
We discussed 529 a little bit in the Down goes the Dow thread. My plan is to contribute 1k per month for around 5 years, hopefully that compounds enough by year 18 to cover a state university.
investing noob wrote:
seattle prattle wrote:
i'm pretty sure that will make an impression on your child and future children. They pick up on those things. I never found that it had to be stated, and I suspect that it would have worked against us if we tried to impart it, as opposed to just living it.
College funds are worth looking into, also, if we hadn't discussed that elsewhere.
We discussed 529 a little bit in the Down goes the Dow thread. My plan is to contribute 1k per month for around 5 years, hopefully that compounds enough by year 18 to cover a state university.
Sounds good. Grows tax free,
You have done very well so far. You started with nothing and managed to be comfortable by studying, working, and saving money.
It would be helpful to have a discussion with your wife and negotiate the limits of your help to the family. This way you can both be happy and avoid future fights.
Again, well done.
P.S. I like that you wrote your salaries and gave exact numbers. It much easier to understand the whole situation like this. More data is good!
Asmodeus wrote:
You have done very well so far. You started with nothing and managed to be comfortable by studying, working, and saving money.
It would be helpful to have a discussion with your wife and negotiate the limits of your help to the family. This way you can both be happy and avoid future fights.
Again, well done.
P.S. I like that you wrote your salaries and gave exact numbers. It much easier to understand the whole situation like this. More data is good!
Thank you!
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