In the budget of young couples, the thorny question of the distribution of expenses: "Doing 50/50 is an absolute scam"

In love, we don't talk about money. It's not exactly glamorous, even downright indecent, to stoop to these venal concerns, when it would be enough to rely on the obvious 50/50 sharing of common expenses, without being picky. In the eyes of Maylis, 28, doing half and half even seemed the "fairest" solution when she moved in with her partner. As a modern woman, "I wanted to owe nothing and be fully financially independent," she explains.

Until she looked further into the future. "I had to face the fact that, the world being what it was, I would never earn as much as my partner in my lifetime and that, even though I wanted equality, I would inevitably end up getting screwed if we never talked about money," says this digital designer. The source of her awareness was listening to the podcast "Rends l'argent," broadcast in 2023 and written by feminist author Titiou Lecoq. In it, she traces the implacable mechanism of taboos and inequalities that statistically lead women to emerge impoverished from life as a couple, while men have become richer.

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