If your partner controls the money, you HAVE to start small. Take the loose bills, spare change, forgotten gift cards. Anything that he doesn’t track counts as a resource. And NONE of it is “too little.” I had almost NO access to money my ex didn’t monitor. So while he was gone I searched the house (pockets, drawers, old bags, the junk drawer) and collected anything I could find. The end result of all that work was about $50. I stared at that tiny pile of money and felt FURIOUS. I was a full-tim

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