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How to navigate friendships across class lines

My trust fund friends casually talk about their parents buying them apartments and I just sit there pretending like my family could do the same when we can barely afford groceries.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Friendship becomes performance when economic realities diverge too far from social expectations.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.