45 Shockingly Out Of Touch Rich People Who Proved The Wealthy Literally Live On Another Planet

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“When I was in college, I dated a guy who we’ll call John. His family was old money. We dated for about a year, and I never met his parents — they were never home. They never got together for holidays; I have never seen a family less close. His father was always off handling some vague business deal, and his mother pretty much lived in their vacation home on St. Croix. They were still married, but I don’t think they’d actually spoken since their youngest child graduated high school. The only ‘family’ I ever met was the live-in housekeeper/nanny who basically raised John. She was as lovely as can be, but she also had her own family. The idea that this woman lived in this giant house she kept up for a family who spent maybe three weeks a year in it when she had a husband and son in her own home was…bizarre.”

“We broke up because John was honestly just completely disconnected from day-to-day reality. I had to teach him how to do laundry, make coffee, and put sheets on a bed. The man didn’t know that you have to clean a shower. It was like the scene in New Girl where Nick thinks that you don’t wash towels because the towel washes you. John thought that since the bathroom is a space where you clean your body, it was, in turn, naturally clean. After about six months in his own apartment, he broke down and started having the housekeeper/nanny come weekly to clean his space in addition to his parents’ house. He couldn’t handle the effort of taking care of himself, and I couldn’t handle what felt like raising my own boyfriend into an adult. 

The final fight was because I wouldn’t take off work to go with him to Paris on short notice. John wanted to take me with him to help select his new wardrobe for the season. It turns out this guy had been going to Paris twice a year since he was 12 to purchase all new clothes to replace the previous season’s wardrobe (at least the ‘old’ clothes were donated and not just tossed). He genuinely did not know that normal people just keep wearing the same clothes for years. The idea of wearing the same winter coat (and you can imagine the fabulous full-length cashmere coats this man was buying) two years in a row was unfathomable to him. 

That was almost 20 years ago, and my understanding is that he’s since gone completely right-wing incel. He was honestly lovely when I knew him, and I have no idea what turned him that way. It is strange to think how much happier I am than he will ever be when he’s had the whole world at his fingertips this whole time.”

—Anonymous