re: Spinoff from the budget app thread. How do you handle accounts and payments with SO?

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To me this feels set up to eventually hide things from each other

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People with separate accounts will argue that a single account is just for controlling spouses that don’t trust their significant other.

To each their own. Both ways can be done successfully.

Some have suggested they have never argued over money. It is almost certainly because you have money. You have likely never had to stretch a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter (no jelly) to last a week. If you had gone through those struggles, you would have argued over money whether you had a joint account, single account or no bank account at all.