Help! I Came Into a Large Inheritance. Then My Boyfriend’s True Personality Emerged.
BY SLATE
Dear Prudence,
I am a 26-year-old woman. My parents are well-off, and I enjoyed private education, nice vacations, and a number of other advantages, but it was always understood that I would go to college, pursue a career, and make my own way through the world. Recently, my grandmother died and left me and my siblings enough money that theoretically we don’t have to work unless we want to. I hadn’t realized before then how substantial my inheritance was. I love my work and have no intention of quitting. Everyone I know works!
My boyfriend has changed overnight from being a lovable, down-to-earth guy to being someone I don’t recognize. He is pressuring me to quit my job and work with him on an unfunded travel blog. He has also recently started being inexplicably rude to waitstaff and is expressing increasingly conservative views about poor people. The other day he made an overtly racist joke about our cab driver’s nationality and his “laziness.” I was mortified. When I challenge him on some of his more offensive behaviors, he tells me he is joking. I feel like this shift has occurred only since we discovered I had more money. I don’t want to break up because I love him but am blindsided by the change. Is this who he always was, or has the money changed him?
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