My partner and I have talked at length about money.
I never really had any money to speak of till my current job but it is so soul-crushing, I am looking for another job. If I change jobs, I will be back in the same general salary ball-park I always was.
My surgeries and hospital stays put me in debt that I am still climbing out from under.
My GF is a regional director and makes way more than I do and always has. She spent a short time after college working as a PE teacher and then went into the transportation industry for a corporation; a primarily male industry.
I still don't have a lot of money to speak of. She does.
She got soaked when her 21 year relationship ended. They were domestic partners but had no pre-nup.
I know a lot of people think a pre-nup is awful, untrusting and unromantic. I personally think it is wise. I don't think that I have a right to expect any of the money or property that she had when we got together. I have daughters and grandchildren. If I die, I want them to get what is fair.
She had nieces and nephews that she wants to do the same.
All cards on the table, no surprises before the I do's. A lot is not going to be easy to talk about. My welfare years were grim and they were some years that should have been good earning years but were spent in poverty instead
She needs to know all of it. Just a couple more secret shames around bad money choices during my time living on poverty lane. Even though it was long ago-it still has repercussions today....
Yeah Kanye, we want pre-nup, we want pre-nup!
Everything nice and kosher. It protects both of us.