Lord that reminds me of the terrible girlfriend I mentioned earlier and her even worse mother (to whom she was joined at at the hip — I’ve since learned this is always a huge, huge red flag in a woman).
One time, the mom made some comment implying that I was not good enough for her daughter because I didn’t have a college education. Then she did it again, more blatantly. That’s when I informed the mother that I made four times as much as her daughter did, even if you didn’t include the absolute killing I made in the stock market, and that I had paid for her daughter’s car in cash with money I’d made in a single afternoon on a stock. And furthermore, I paid 80% of all the bills and always had.
Complete silence after that. It was a dinner at our place and the mother left in a huff shortly thereafter. My girlfriend also said her mother “meant well,” but she absolutely did not.
(The mom assumed because I did not flashily display wealth and didn’t even drive a particularly nice car at at that time and that I came from rural North Florida and then the army, that I was poor. She in general just hated me because I otherwise did not tolerate her BS.)