Joint Accounts

Can I Ask My Partner to Help Fund My Retirement?

How to talk about sharing the burden for individual savings goals

Kristin Wong
Published in
3 min readJun 10, 2019

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Illustration: Laurie Rollitt

Dear Joint Accounts,

My boyfriend works part-time and doesn’t make much money, by choice — he’s a computer scientist and electrical engineer by training, so he could be making much more if he wanted…

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Kristin Wong
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Kristin Wong has written for the New York Times, The Cut, Catapult, The Atlantic and ELLE.