AIBU to cut them off a bit? In our 30s, They both have fairly good professions but they work for very low level average companies - the snobbery of their professions really gives them delusions of grandeur and is not justified imo (is it ever?).
They have a small house in an affluent neighbourhood and tick off all the things their parents would have said makes you "successful" and they act like such snobs because of it but I feel this generation is less judgey than our parents and they act like the rest of the friendship group should worship them.
Examples include bitching about other friends for past behaviours in our teens (that I also partook in but I get more respect because I am more stereotypically "successful". Which rubs me up the wrong way because either you judge that behaviour or you don't not depending on who has the money to overlook it.
They also bang on about being "middle class" and show off about membership club events they attend which are really not impressive to me (myself, I know plenty of people in my line of work who really are successful and impressive but are more modest and classy). They have no class!
Anyway recently they have started making coy jokes about something in my past as if they think I don't realise exactly what they're doing and I've just cut them off.
I was maintaining friendship because they seemed to chase my approval (purely because I am "successful" in their eyes). And it was fine for me and also they are part of the wider friendship group so I didn't want to cause a rift but I can't take it anymore.
I'm finding it harder and harder to not put them down a peg or two and humble them but I think safer to cut ties altogether?