"They said were retiring this fall at age 60 and moving to Florida to a beachfront condo to live six months and one day out of the year. We knew Lea's family lived in Florida and they visited several times a year, so that didn't surprise us. What surprised us was how they could retire at age 60 and buy a beachfront condo!"
"Rob decided to "investigate" how they could do this and found out Lea's family is quite, no I will rephrase that, very wealthy. Lea is on the board of directors of her family's real estate management company and she has an estimated net worth of multiple millions of dollars."
"Rob is pissed. He thought we were all in the same boat with the same financial hardships in raising a family, worried about layoffs, rising cost of living, etc. He feels Jay and Lea lied to us about how well off they were. But they didn't lie, they just never told us."
"Now Rob wants us to end the friendship with Jay and Lea, and he is mad at me because I said I won't. I look at it as if they were the "Sam Walton type" who didn't flaunt their wealth and lived like normal everyday average people and"
Two couples met through a church-sponsored card club and continued monthly visits after the club ended. Their lives rarely overlapped beyond basic personal knowledge. One couple later announced they would retire at age 60 and move to a beachfront condo for most of the year, which surprised the others. The surprise came from the assumption that everyone faced similar financial pressures. Investigation revealed that one partner came from a very wealthy family and held a leadership role in a real estate management company, with an estimated net worth in the millions. One friend felt betrayed and wanted to end the friendship, while the writer chose to continue it, viewing the couple as private rather than dishonest.
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