Marriage problems: First one to mention Anti-freeze wins

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Nixhex

My wife and I had a joint checking account for the first 7 years of our marriage. We constantly fought about money during this time. The past year we have done a seperate account deal and things have never been better. We still pay all the bills together. I pay about 54% and she pays 46%. Those figures are based on our income. There is no right or wrong way to do it. You just have to figure out what works for you as a couple and roll with it.

This is how we do it, pretty much. I think I'm about to change it up, though, because it's become harder to budget.

I think we're going to get one joint account (and really all of our accounts are "joint" in that we can transfer money between them at will) that we use to pay all bills from (through automated bill pay). Both of our paychecks will direct deposit into this account.

After that, we'll pull out a set "allowance" into each of our individual accounts to spend as we see fit.