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When anonymous giving backfires in personal relationships

I donated anonymously to my friend's medical fundraiser but she found out and now she's angry I was 'watching her beg' when I could have helped all along.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to preserve dignity in wealth-mediated help can paradoxically create more shame and resentment.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Inherited wealth and its complications?”

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