My Net Worth is 1/9 That of My Married Friends, Which Is Extremely Depressing
in December asked readers to “think about your household’s monthly expenses. There are the big-ticket items — your rent or mortgage, your health care, maybe a student loan. Then there’s the smaller stuff: the utility bills; the internet ...You pay for food, and household items like toilet paper and garbage bags and lightbulbs.” Then it asked you to “imagine paying for all those things completely on your own.” Reader, I snorted.
I don’t have a strong desire to be married, but the financial incentives are appealing. The ability to split rent, groceries, my insane electric bill thanks to soaring summer temperatures? Home ownership being slightly more in reach if I could pool my slim savings with those of my partner? Just the thought of that brings me a brief moment of bliss—the kind of bliss that I imagine people with trust funds, or people who say “nah, I got this” after every round of drinks, regularly experience.
If a famous actor with two Emmy nominations for two different shows can’t even afford to have a kid, it’s clear that the way our economic system currently functions is helping ever-fewer people in ever-fewer ways.
But to have what I want in life—a home I feel comfortable and safe in; meals I enjoy; enough downtime to not get angry at myself when I “waste” a weekend afternoon watching TikToks—I have to acquire wealth. Being unmarried apparently makes that a hell of a lot harder.
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