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Does your boyfriend/husband help pay for your birth control?
My last post about the cost of prescription birth control (especially ones like NuvaRing that don’t have generic alternatives) reminded me of another important issue: Does your partner help pay the cost of your birth control medication?
My boyfriend recently started offering to cover half the costs, and we’ve added it to the other bills we split each month (like rent and cable). This has helped a lot since I switched from a $10 a month generic pill to the $50 a month NuvaRing.
I don’t know if this is actually all that common—perhaps just because women don’t think to ask—but it really seems logical, doesn’t it? It’s kind of ironic that men are required to provide for the children the make and that they are often called upon to help cover the costs of an abortion, but that there doesn’t seem to be any financial onus to help cover the (often very high!) costs of reliable prescription birth control. This also includes the medical appointments necessary to obtain such prescriptions.
Honestly, I think it makes sense. You might be taking the one taking the medication, but it’s BOTH of you who are benefiting. I would love to know how other couples handle this!
