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When professional success creates family distance

I got promoted and now I make more than my dad ever did, but instead of feeling proud I just feel guilty and worried that I'm becoming someone he wouldn't recognize.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic advancement can feel like betrayal of family values and inherited identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and identity — class aspiration and shame?”

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