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NinjaSteve · 10-01-2004, 10:03 PM

For a relationship to work there has to be trust, but a lack of stress is always good too. I think it works best to treat it like a business. X% goes into the main account that you share and pay bills with. X goes to you. X goes to her.

Or if you make a different amount and that bothers you, you keep seperate accounts for each of you and 1 account that's joint. You put $X into that account every month no matter your pay (example: $2k each, no matter what each of you make). Then you keep the rest and she keeps the rest.

I've run into too many issues in my life where she gets upset when I buy a computer, or digital camera, or TV, or Gamecube, or just bet it all on black. WTF. It's my money. It gets to be very stressful when somebody is seeing what you're spending money on all the time and getting upset about it even if it's your % of the money (or all of the money is yours).

If one of you stays at home to watch children, you can still do seperate accounts and split up the main check properly because in my opinion a stay at home parent is doing that as their full time job.

10-01-2004, 10:03 PM
NinjaSteve Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 11,089	For a relationship to work there has to be trust, but a lack of stress is always good too. I think it works best to treat it like a business. X% goes into the main account that you share and pay bills with. X goes to you. X goes to her. Or if you make a different amount and that bothers you, you keep seperate accounts for each of you and 1 account that's joint. You put $X into that account every month no matter your pay (example: $2k each, no matter what each of you make). Then you keep the rest and she keeps the rest. I've run into too many issues in my life where she gets upset when I buy a computer, or digital camera, or TV, or Gamecube, or just bet it all on black. WTF. It's my money. It gets to be very stressful when somebody is seeing what you're spending money on all the time and getting upset about it even if it's your % of the money (or all of the money is yours). If one of you stays at home to watch children, you can still do seperate accounts and split up the main check properly because in my opinion a stay at home parent is doing that as their full time job. __________________ ...