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Despite a growing aspiration for fairness in couples, financial matters remain a taboo subject that divides more often than it unites.
Par Marion Coquette
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Çit happened like this. “When we met, said Sandra*, he was already working in international trade and had invested in a small apartment in Paris, I was a student and I didn’t have a scholarship: I moved in with him. I didn’t have a penny, he paid for everything. Except that he was often on the move and that he forgot to regulate the electricity and the gas: several times I had to call him because I found myself in the dark and in the cold. The day he accepted the idea of a monthly debit for his bills was a great, very great proof of his love. »
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