Julia Munslow
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first heard Feb 2025
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How to Talk About Your Debt While Navigating the Dating Scene · 6 Feb 2025
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If you're dating casually, if you're just getting out there for fun, it's okay to not disclose your debt.
But if you're doing it and you are hoping to find that forever person, it's important to talk about it at some point.
There can be a lot of different financial problems when you're dating.
Really, my story is about debt, but there are so many different kinds of debt that someone can have, and they can be perceived differently by the people you're dating.
A lot of people have federal student loans, for instance, but there's also credit card debt, consumer debt, and even medical debt.
When you're getting to know someone and you're paying for drinks, you're paying for your outfits, you're paying to get to whatever place you're meeting, it can really add up.
I spoke to one 29-year-old in San Francisco who told me he went on 57 dates last year and spent $17,000.
Now, that's including travel and accommodation, but that's still a pretty high price point.
Even if you are not footing the bill for the date necessarily, you're still having to pay.
Figure out if you want a new dress or you want a new outfit and makeup and it's time and that time could be spent on that date or that time could be spent picking up an extra shift at work to help you pay off the debt.
Yeah.
So it does get expensive and it can add up.
A lot of people can feel shame about their financial health, especially if they're carrying a lot of debt.
I spoke to one woman who has $69,000 in federal student loans and $19,000 in credit card debt.
That's a lot.
And for her, she struggled with the idea that she had all of this debt.
And as a woman, oftentimes men would offer to pay.
And she would feel guilty about having men spend their hard-earned money on her.
So it really depends on the person.
Different people have different habits here.
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