Rich relatives.Do they help you?

It's good if you do not have rich relatives. Having a few rich relatives can hurt you sometimes. Generally, they will not help you, however, there could be a few who will help you or at least show as if they are helping you, but after helping you, every time, they will remind you of that. This is not something that any one will expect from their relatives, but it happens in most of the cases. Rich people will try to be humble in front of you but they laugh at you at your back. Actually, I had a friend who used to help his relatives a lot and being his room mate, we used to discuss these things, sometimes, it used to be shocking that he thinks like that, for elders of his family, the only reason was, he had money and he was helping them.

I wish i had some rich relatives. Unfortunately, most of my relatives don't have much more than I do. It would be nice to have someone to go to when a financial crisis arises. Until i can come across a rich relative, i will just have to take care of myself.

I think it is right to keep in touch with rich relatives and rich friend. They can help you in urgency. But like you, there are no such people around me.

actually my relatives can't said to be very rich. Some of them are rich but some others are average economically. but my family got help always from both these categories. i have sat that richness of money doesn't mean anything.it is the helpful mentality of mind posses everything.if one posses a good helping mentality ,whether he is rich or poor he will help others.

Should I take help from them??

no not all of them help, i think they love their money more than their relatives, i had once experience that and it is really a nice one, we ran out of money and we need help but that relative of ours that we go and asked for help turned us down, well it was a long story and it is really not a good one. but all is well now :)

Hi, silvercoin. I have many relatives in my family that have money and they are able to assist me if they could. I know that they are not rich, as far as I know of. But, they don't help me at all. It is like they want to keep their money all to themselves. It is very sad. They may help me, but it is not just all of the time though.

We are the rich relatives. What that means is we are just above the poverty level. But our family is full of love and care for each other, so we help each other as much as possible. No one goes without food, shelter or clothing. It may left overs, rented and hand me downs. But we all have jobs and work very hard to keep up.

i have a couple of very wealthy relatives we do keep in touch on a regular basis the phone calls emails but i would never dream of asking them to help me with money.i am one who buys only what i can afford for cash and have never had a credit card been offered them lots of times from my bank but it is to easy then to get into debt that you cant really afford to repay because if you can afford the debt then you can afford to save for what you need not what you want.

They don't and I don't expect them to. We are not that close with one another but we're close enough to be cordial to each other. Money divides a relationship sometimes and I'd rather keep the relationship.

No. Modesty aside, we're richer than them. :-)

oh we do try to help our less fortunate relatives. i even offer to pay their bills and give them gas money everyday.... I WISH! :) yeah... we also have those, the rich ones. we're like the poor side of our family. lol! but we're all close. having them is fun too! there handle most of the expenses whenever there's a family gathering. lol! taking advantage of these rich folks is not good though... they worked their a$$es to get to where they're now. just be contented with what you have. if you want something then work for it.

I may have some rich relatives. But it's not our practice to ask any financial help to any of them. We would rather borrow money from other people who's not a relative. Let's say my rich relatives were not that kind enough.

Nope, I don't think I even have rich relatives. My family is very distant.

Hi silvercoin, I really don't have any "rich" relatives. We are all struggling to stay ahead of this failing economy. We were all in better shape, financially, a few years ago and we did help each other out when someone needed our help. I am sure those days will come again, but for now, we are all just going for a bumpy roller coaster ride in this up and down economy.

We have a lot of rich relatives. As a matter of fact, they are willing to help us during our difficulties but my parents don't ask help from them. They wanted to show that they can stand in their own. That's the reason my mom told us that we should study very hard to get a good job and earn some money. We don't need to depend ourselves with anybody but us.

I have rich relatives form my father's side.., most of them are businessmen in our native province.. But i'm not proud of them.., they are greedy and selfish.., when it comes to financial matters.., they don't care if they are related to us or not.., when we ask to borrow some cash from them.., it takes them awhile to give in..and sometimes.., they would say they don't have cash!! imagine!! my father was the one who sent them to school!!! how inconsiderate!

I have rich relatives but sad to say you can't count on them when your in trouble. I'm sorry if some of my relatives will read this but I'm just being honest. I don't want to go into details on why we can't count on them out of respect. But I promise to myself , if one day it's my time to shine and become rich , I'll definitely help them out specially financial needs so that it will be a big slap on their faces and will start to think why they didn't help me and my family in times we need them.

Haha I must laugh at this one. I have so many well off relatives, millionaires and you couldn't get a dime out of them. . .lets put it this way if they were the my last hope to live by giving me a dime, they wouldn't do it. Thank goodness my parents have their own and we do very well for ourselves. Its not right to keep intouch solely with someone in hopes of being able to use them when you need them. Would you like to be kept around because you're someones emergency pick me up. but it is good to keep intouch with others because you care for them and want to be sure all is well on their end.

yep.. somehow they could be of help to you, but dont abuse them, people get tired helping people, including your relative.. :D