Money and (In)equality in Relationships

It shouldn’t matter, but it does

Shannon Page

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Photo by Oscar Ivan Esquivel Arteaga on Unsplash

Who makes more, you or your partner? One of you does, almost certainly; the odds of you both earning exactly the same are vanishingly rare.

I’m earning about 85% of our household income at the moment; last year my contribution was around 65%. It’ll change. It already has, more than once. Just a few years ago, my…

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Shannon Page

Writer, editor, thinker of things, living on Orcas Island, Washington state. https://www.shannonpage.net