What you leave behind — when you are ready, and not before. There is no right amount. There is only the amount that feels true to you.
At some point in this journey — and you will not notice exactly when — you will find yourself thinking about this child's future in a way that surprises you. Not their next birthday. Not the school report arriving next month. Their twenties. What kind of adult they might become. What they will need that nobody is currently planning for. What kind of beginning their adult life will have.
This page is for that moment.
The Inheritance is a personal commitment — entirely voluntary, entirely on your own terms — to set aside something for the child when they become an adult. Not a payment we collect. Not a product you purchase. A decision you make, record here, and honour in whatever way suits your circumstances and your relationship with this specific child.
"The most enduring gifts are not the ones given in a moment of generosity.
They are the ones built quietly, over years,
when nobody was watching."
You choose the amount. You choose the frequency. You choose when to start and how to build it. We keep a record of your stated commitment alongside your Pages journal — so that when you open the Inner Room and see it there, it is not a financial instrument. It is a mirror of intention. A record of what you decided to give before it was easy or convenient or asked of you.
When the child turns 18 and our infrastructure to receive and transfer funds safely is in place, the money moves to them. Entirely. Without deduction. Whatever you have accumulated — whether it is two hundred dollars or twenty thousand — it belongs to them unconditionally. To begin a business. To fund a year of education. To simply start an adult life with more dignity than they would have had without it.
There is no obligation to create an Inheritance. Many companions find the relationship itself — the letters, the birthdays, the Hearth Notes, the sealed letters accumulating in the journal — to be sufficient. If you never contribute to the Inheritance, the relationship is no less real and no less valuable. This is an addition, not a requirement. Something for those who feel, at some point, that they want to leave something that outlasts them in this child's life.
Something added alongside your membership — five dollars, ten, twenty. Whatever feels right without feeling like a stretch.
In five years, $10 a month becomes $600. In ten years, $1,200. In fifteen, $1,800. Small and consistent is how most meaningful things are built. The size of the monthly addition is entirely yours to decide. The practice of it — the returning to the decision each month — is itself a quiet act of care.
On the anniversary of your match — the date the relationship began — you return to the question of what you can give this year.
Some years it is more. Some years it is less. The practice of returning to the decision each year is its own ritual of care. It makes the anniversary something beyond a calendar reminder. It becomes the day you look at what the year gave you and decide what you will pass forward from it.
A bonus. A sale. An inheritance. A year that went better than expected. You direct some of it here.
Irregular, unscheduled, entirely on your own terms. The most significant contributions to any fund tend to come from moments of abundance — when something arrived in your life that you did not plan for and you chose to pass some of it forward. You do not need to decide now. You will know when the moment is right.
At the completion of the minimum commitment — five years of showing up — some companions make one deliberate, significant contribution.
Not because they are required to. Because five years of an honest relationship tends to produce a specific feeling — the desire to mark it with something real. Five years of a bond, distilled into one deliberate act. The amount is yours to decide. The timing is yours to choose. We simply make the mechanism available when you are ready for it.
This form does not take a payment. It records your intention — the amount you have decided to set aside and the way you plan to build it. That record lives in your Inner Room alongside your Pages journal. It is a mirror of what you decided, on this day, to give.
It lives now in your Inner Room. You can see it, update it, and add to it whenever you choose. There is no schedule. There is no reminder. There is only the decision you made today — and the child who will one day understand what it meant.
We want to be completely clear with you about the current state of the Inheritance programme. We are not yet equipped to receive and hold funds on your behalf. Building a legal structure to hold, manage, and transfer funds across international borders — in a way that is safe, regulated, and verifiably reaches the child at 18 — takes time and professional infrastructure. We are building that infrastructure now.
Until it is in place — which we expect within the next twelve to eighteen months — the Inheritance is a personal commitment programme, not a financial product. You set money aside yourself, in your own account, in your own name. We keep a record of your stated intention. When our infrastructure is ready, we will contact you with a simple option to formally transfer your accumulated fund into our managed programme.
You are under no obligation to do anything with the money you have set aside until that point. If our infrastructure does not materialise to your satisfaction, the money remains yours entirely. We have made no claim on it and never will until you choose to transfer it.
This is not a typical way to run a fund. It is the honest way to run one when the legal groundwork is not yet complete. We would rather tell you this clearly than collect money we are not yet equipped to hold responsibly.
"Nobody leaves a legacy for a stranger.
But nobody stays a stranger
for five years of honest showing up.
By then, this is not a stranger's child.
This is a life you were part of."