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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Eleanor Gordon-Smith

Everyone is starting to guess how wealthy my fiance is. How do I stop this affecting my friendships?

Painting, William Powell Frith, For Better For Worse
‘The price for being able to have the holidays and do the nice things might be that your friends gawk a bit.’ Painting: For Better, For Worse by William Powell Frith (1881) Photograph: Artepics/Alamy

After a decades-long saga, I have finally got engaged to the love of my life. A lot of my friends have followed the story over the years and appear mostly very happy it all sorted itself out.

Naturally after such a long time, we want to enjoy each other’s company and do nice things. Although I am successful and work full-time, I am also spending good chunks of time doing exciting things with him overseas. My dilemma is that everyone is starting to guess how wealthy my new man is because of the lifestyle he leads, the fact he retired early, and the amount of travel he does. He really is very wealthy and not even my family knows the extent.

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