Behavior: Emotional and Lifestyle Issues of the Wealthy and Affluent

Wealthy and affluent people have issues depending on how they conduct their lives. Many affluent people have no issues because they don’t let their affluence affect them in a negative way. Some affluent people lose touch with the rest of the world, and forget the disparity in income between people in our country. But that loss of perspective is true of middle class folks as well.

Some wealthy people feel guilty for having so much when others have so little. However, the truth is that their stress comes from not giving away the money they feel guilty about having. If they did give it away, they wouldn’t feel so bad about the disparity.

Other wealthy people never feel that they have enough no matter how much they have. This issue would affect them if they were poor or rich and has nothing to do with the amount they have, but the sense of not having enough of anything.

Some wealthy people are afraid that everyone wants something from them because they are rich. This fear can affect the way they choose to live their lives.

Some wealthy people are afraid that they will never truly be known, intimately, because they are so often defined by society by their wealth and not by other more personal characteristics.