Jennifer Wilson

My name is Jennifer Wilson.

I'm a staff writer at The New Yorker.

I just noticed them kind of, you know, all over.

You know, you've seen prenups on TV shows like Sex and the City.

or reality shows like Real Housewives.

So speaking of the wedding.

And in those contexts, it makes sense because we're talking about people with a lot of money.

The stereotype is that you've got a rich guy and he wants to figure out a way to, you know, screw his, like, gold-digging younger partner out of her share of the assets.

But I started seeing prenups appear on shows like, you know, Love is Blind.

I think I would be, like, most comfortable with just, like, having separate accounts.

Even, like, a prenup.

You know, there was...

a contestant who worked in HR and she wanted her fiance to sign a prenup.

And, you know, neither of them really had much money.

Worst case scenario, it was just like people leave with what they came with and like figuring out like how to split assets and stuff like that before it becomes a thing, you know.

And I expected, you know, the conversation on social media to be sort of

You know, making fun of this a little bit.

Like, come on, girl.

Like, we don't have any money.

We've blown it all on avocado toast.