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The Modern Love column presents a special collection of essays and reader stories exploring how finances complicate relationships.

The poet Maggie Smith explains why she will never be financially dependent on a romantic partner again.

“I couldn’t bear the idea that we were the ‘fat couple’ among our friends.”

“It took me far too long to learn this stuff. They understood it so much sooner.”

“One glimpse at my boyfriend’s recent searches caused our already precarious relationship to topple.”

“Life is short. Type fast. Then get in the car and go.”

How has money complicated or transformed your relationships?

Her husband promised to love her pain away. Somehow, he made the impossible, possible.

“I pictured myself as my lover, a cisgender man, talking to a woman dressed to receive him as I always have.”