Joint Accounts

Could I Be Responsible for My Partner’s Debt?

Before we get married, I want to know how to protect myself financially

Kristin Wong
Forge
Published in
3 min readAug 26, 2019

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An illustration of a woman looking down at her boyfriend, who is stuck in a hole, looking up at the woman and proposing.
Illustration: Laurie Rollitt

Dear Joint Accounts,

I was fortunate enough to graduate college without any debt, and I’ve been dating a man for a few years now who has more than $100,000 of student loans. I can really…

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