My Brother Met His Now-Wife Because She Was My Business Partner. Now They’ve Conspired Against Me.

Pay Dirt July 20, 20266:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Galeanu Mihai/Getty Images Plus. Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Pay Dirt, I come from a very close-knit family. There are five of us kids, and we all still live within an hour of my parents’ house. We get together for family dinners every week, with all of our spouses and kids, too. It’s a lot! But that’s always been the expectation of our family. But now there’s something that is making this really hard for me. My brother met his wife, “Lana,” because she was my friend and business partner first. We ran a small business together, a store, that we started with a loan from my parents. Lana started dating my brother when we’d had the busines