Melissa Febos on a Financially Controlling Boyfriend — and Girlfriend

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. In my mid-20s, I was close to broke. Not struggling-to-keep-the-lights-on-broke, but constantly-doing-basic-math-in-my-head-broke. I had some lingering bad debt that I’d been transferring between credit cards for years. My yearly income was under $20,000. In therapy (the cost of which…

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Watches to Match Your Holiday Sweater

“The holidays are meant to be a special time when you bring out your Christmas sweater — and why not your special watch?” asked Summer Anne Lee, a fashion historian and adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. “Seasonal watches are not over-the-top like the ugly Christmas sweaters,” she said. “But…

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