re: Conjoining your account with your siginificant other

When my wife I got married, we opened a joint checking and savings account together. I never understood how people could have separate accounts and decide who pays for what. Seems like it would always be a constant "I paid for this, you need to pay for that" but I know people do it everyday. I see couples on my venmo stream all the time paying each other for groceries or half of daycare, etc... Seems like a lot of extra work. Marriage is hard enough without adding extra tension. To each there own though.

Reading some of the comments above, putting a percentage of each salary in a savings or checking account to pay mutual bills does seems like the second best option. If you can make it work.

Best of luck on your marriage!