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When financial success creates guilt about enjoying food

I grew up poor and now I can afford good food but I still feel guilty spending money on anything beyond basic sustenance, like I'm betraying where I came from.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your past scarcity has created an internal conflict between present abundance and loyalty to your origins.

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