Joint Accounts

My Partner’s Inheritance Is Making Us Fight All the Time

He received a lot of money when his father died, and now it feels like the power balance in our relationship is skewed

Kristin Wong
Forge
Published in
3 min readOct 14, 2019

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Two scenes depicting a grieving couple over a headstone on the left, and 1 partner standing on a pile of gold on the right.
Illustration: Laurie Rollitt

Dear Joint Accounts,

I’ve been with my partner for more than a decade, and while he’s been in…

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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.