Something else to consider too, is some of these people may take like they’ve always been “rich”. My husbands brother worked his way up to Vice President of some company. He now makes a ton of money. They were raised with a dad who bounced around jobs and a mom who worked evenings as a server their whole life. My husband has an okay job and we scrape by. His brother, well, he and his wife now do the vineyard thing, take multiple vacations a year... they kind of forget that people aren’t as well off. They ask us to go on vacations for $1200 per person and get weird when we say we can’t afford it. They shop at Target like the rest of us, but also at a ton of high end places that I can’t afford.

Something we can all agree to talk about is Sports, breweries, things that are relatively “free to do” (like biking or I say I brought my kids to the mall to get energy out). I steer the conversation toward things I can agree with him on. If he talks about skiing in some mountain I just go “oh sounds like a good time. I haven’t gone skiing in years. What else did you do on your vacation” let them do the talking. If they ask me what I’ve been up to lately I usually joke “when was I supposed to find time for a trip between work and my latest Netflix binge?!”

You’ll do great, before you know it you’ll all have a lot more in common than you think :)