By
Charlotte Cowles,
The Cut’s financial-advice columnist.
In addition to “My Two Cents,” she writes about work and parenting for the site. Previously, she was the senior features editor at Harper's Bazaar and a senior editor at the Cut. She was also the editorial director for MM.LaFleur. Her work has also been published in Glamour, Art in America, Politico, and other places.
My boyfriend and I are engaged and planning to marry in the early fall. We’ve been together for two years, living together for one. He makes a little more money than I do — I’m a nurse, and he’s involved in his family business, which his dad and uncle own — but we’ve always been on the same page about spending. We split our shared costs (rent, utilities) and we’ve never really had major conflicts about money.
