Works for Mr Wench and me. Although technically the money is shared we both still have seperate bank accounts that our salaries are paid into. We then pay into the joint account for household bills and expenses. However, he is buggered if he is paying for my credit card debt and I am buggered if I am paying for his student loans. This way I have no claim to his football money and he has none on my tat purchasing sprees. Of course at the end of the day it is all shared but we still talk of owing each other money. Think the last time was when he put my laptop on his credit card and I paid him back over two months. Only fair really. Of course at some point it is more than likely to have to change but that would only be child related. If we don't have any it will probably continue like this forever.
Mrs S#1 had this theory that it was my DUTY to provide a home for the family, heat it, furnish it and provide for all food, school trips, clothing etc. Her earnings were, she felt, to be spent only by her, on her. This was based, in her mind, on the fact that for the first 12 years of our marrriage I had worked and she had raised children. My pay packets were handed over in the traditional manner (she was from opp north) and I received back an allowance. When she started work again she wanted this to continue. I said no! My idea was, much like yours, that each should contribute to the family budget in proportion to our respective earnings. For example if the household expenditure was £100 per week and I earned £100 and she earned £50 then I would dob up £75 and she would put in £25. That way we both shared in the expense of house and family and both had an equal amount left. That did not suit her at all ~ somehow she saw that as unfair. I still cannot see why or how.
Things progressed rapidly downhill from that point on. I'll not bore you further with details other than to say with Mrs S#2 we each pay an equitable share of household expenses and nobody ever owes anybody anything ~ unless one of us wins a bet against the other when the currency is always
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