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When Class Differences Threaten Your Romantic Relationship

My girlfriend's family owns three houses and mine lost ours to foreclosure, and I don't know how to tell her that her casual spending gives me panic attacks.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimate relationships across class lines expose fundamental differences in relationship to money and security.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Class identity and class consciousness?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.