My partner and I have been together for three years and we love each other deeply, but we're realizing that our different relationships to money — shaped by how we each grew up, his family's generational wealth and my family's constant financial stress — create this underlying tension we don't know how to talk about directly. We want to build a life together but we keep having these careful, polite conversations about money that never get to the real stuff about class and what we each carry from our families.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who love each other are discovering that their different class backgrounds create invisible barriers to the intimacy they both want.
“Where Are You with Love across difference — race class faith culture?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.