The greatest heartbreak that comes with extreme wealth is not being able to trust even your friends, says therapist Clay Cockrell
perfectly illustrates why I would never choose to enter the complicated world of my clients. Trust me when I say you’ll never see me buying a lottery ticket.
One of the problems I hear when listening to the super-rich is an increasing need to go bigger and more elaborate with social events. Why have a normal birthday party when you can hire the Rolling Stones to give a concert for your friends? Why throw a small Christmas gathering with your family when you can get Michael Bublé to sit at the piano and sing his holiday hits during cocktail hour? After a while, it’s just never enough. The bigger they go, the less satisfied they become.
‘These relationships are not based in authentic love or open honesty, but a toxic dynamic that festers into paranoia.’I’ve seen some of my wealthy clients innocently and generously help out an old high school friend going through financial troubles, or perhaps offer to send their kids to college, to suddenly realise that the relationship has a whiff of business about it. They begin to notice that their old friend seems hesitant around them, and perhaps too eager to please.
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