Wealthy 20-year-old complains about credit card debt, friends complain she's 'cosplaying' their real struggle: 'Telling me I wouldn’t know difficulty if it hit me in the face'

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  A young wealthy woman tosses her hair in the wind, wearing sunglasses.

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• Am I in the wrong for NOT acting wealthy?

  

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• As the great Pulp song goes, “But still you'll never get it right, 'cause when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall, If you called your dad he could stop it all.” There is a big difference between that and having to live with the roaches until you figure out a way to get yourself out of there. When rich people don't understand that they're in a different boat, they come across as callous. That's the lesson this young woman was learning when her friends started to get tired of her complaining. Read on for all the details of the story.

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  A wistful young woman looks off into the distance.

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• Commenters gave their cold, hard truths.

  

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