"my wife was also poor but she is the best person I've ever met" You still make it sound like you see it as some black mark against someone. I doubt you meant

"my wife was also poor but she is the best person I've ever met" You still make it sound like you see it as some black mark against someone. I doubt you meant to come off that way, but you really did. Imagine if I said: "Xstartup is (gay,black,jew), but is a really great person" Sounds bad huh?