Money talks but I just cannot tell my pals about windfall

I'm a woman in my early 40s and have two children with my husband.

- Dear Coleen

Things are going quite well for my husband and I in our jobs and we're both earning reasonable salaries for the first time ever, plus his grandad died recently and left everything to him in his will, which amounts to quite a substantial amount of money.

I know this doesn't sound like a problem, but I'm actually feeling quite guilty about this good fortune and feel awful when I see my friends, as a few of them are really struggling financially at the moment.

Usually, when I get together with my friends, one of the things we moan about a lot is trying to make ends meet and I suppose it felt like we were all in the same boat together.