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When family financial expectations don't match everyone's actual capacity

My extended family expects me and my cousins to contribute equally to family events and gifts now that we're all adults with careers but some of us make way more than others and no one wants to be the first to say they can't afford it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family financial traditions often fail to evolve with the economic realities of the next generation.

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