My roommate and I have been splitting expenses 50/50 since we moved in together, but they just got a job that pays twice what I make and our neighborhood is gentrifying rapidly. I can barely afford my half anymore but they want to stay, and I don't know how to bring up changing our arrangement without it getting weird about money and class.
More people experience this than they realize.
Economic inequality between intimates creates practical problems that expose uncomfortable truths about fairness, privilege, and mutual responsibility.
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