Being Poor in a Cross-Class Relationship We had just turned 18. We had just started dating after two years of friendship. We had just walked into one of my worst nightmares: Which friggin’ fork do I use first?!? My boyfriend was wealthy, and I was poor. It normally didn’t affect our relationship very much, because […]
cross-class relationships
A cross-class dating anecdote
At Brooklyn College, part of the City of New York’s public higher education system, I began to be acutely aware of class. I asked a co-ed for a date, she agreed and gave me her address to pick her up on Saturday. I noted that her address was in Flatbush, a middle income community unlike […]
