Joint Accounts

How Can I Stop Being Weird About My Partner Covering My Rent?

He’s asked me to live with him for free while I’m in school, but I’m uncomfortable being so dependent on him

Kristin Wong
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 16, 2019

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Illustration: Laurie Rollitt

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Kristin Wong
Forge
Writer for

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