Finances and polyamory: how to talk to your partners about money
Dating more people doesn’t have to be more expensive, but it does involve more communicating and could lead to unexpected hurdles WORDS BY NICOLE GARCÍA MÉRIDA HEADER DESIGN BY ANISA CLEAVER One of my longest, most stable relationships came to an end largely because we didn’t know how to talk about money.
For months I bit my tongue, refusing to comment on what felt like a deeply unfair arrangement simply because I didn’t know how to communicate my discomfort and was concerned it would descend into an argument.
My worries weren’t all irrational, as it turned out. It ended for a variety of reasons but ultimately one of the arguments we had over and over, even after we’d broken up, was about how we’d split expenses.
Talking about finances with a partner can be a source of great anxiety. What happens, then, if you don’t know how to approach the subject and you have to do it with not just one but several people?
