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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Sometimes Women's Lib is really Fing stupid. I swear that's the root of this whole stupid thing.
There's nothing individual about a marriage when it gets right down to it. If you're out there spending money on things against your wife's will just because it's in 'your' account, the marriage is probably not long for this earth anyway.
I just see absolutely no utility in individual accounts. Work together on your expenses and there's just no reason why both parties can't still get their own stuff and have their own nights out with friends, etc... without resorting to something as juvenile as separate accounts.
It's like when I would put pencils across the car seat as a child so my sister didn't get on 'my side' of the seat. Nut up and work together.
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I get that some couples have separate bank accounts for their own personal items. If both parties agreed to pool all their money but put a relatively small amount (as a percentage of net income) into their own accounts (presumably an equal amount for both people, regardless of who makes more), so they can buy each other gifts and spend on silly stuff, I get that.
But for the rest, I don't think it's juts women and women's lib who think of my money as mine, and yours as yours. It's a product of high divorce rates as much as anything else.