I contributed a personal essay to Refinery29 detailing my experience navigating joint finances with my boyfriend, and the pitfalls of relying on Venmo as a budget tool.
“Venmo entered our lives during a very auspicious time: We had just moved in together. The complexities of sharing a home meant we had more important bills to split than a few dinners a week, and Venmo seemed liked the answer to prayers we didn’t know we had. Before we even had a chance to figure out how to divide and conquer our new joint living expenses the old-fashioned way, we devised a painfully millennial system around our new favorite app.”