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

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People here hate separate accounts. Go figure. Some deep trust issues in some of these people.

All separate accounts here. No joint accounts. Happily married 24 years.

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Nope, 1 joint account and I have been married longer than you. If I had concerns about a potential spouse having money issues or is a spendthrift then I wouldn't marry them. We have a monthly budget that includes all bills and significant latitude for discretionary spending. She had to have her car repaired yesterday ~ $1,100.00, it was already in the annual budget. I'm spending ~ $1800 in the next few weeks to go to out of state K9 trials, already in the budget. I would hate to micro divide shite every month which could lead to a lot of bickering. If one spouse becomes incompetent or disabled what happens to their individual accounts, etc?