OT Married Folk: do you and your spouse keep separate checking accounts?

Never. We have nothing to hide from each other. Both of our paychecks get deposited into one account and we pay bills from it then have fun with it. I see what she spends and she sees what I spend.

Yes

We have separate spending accounts but joint bill and savings accounts.

she has an account that i control, and i have an account.

she has a separate play account that she gets $300 a month to do whatever she wants with.

Yes, but we also have a joint account that most of our money goes in to. The separate checking accounts are just stuff that we spend on shite that we individually like to do. For me, its mostly golf and our annual guys golfing trip. For her, it's mostly for her MUSES related shite like dues and other events they have throughout the year.

Been together almost 15 years and have never had an issue.

HA.

My wife would never go for this in a million years

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We have nothing to hide from each other. Both of our paychecks get deposited into one account and we pay bills from it then have fun with it. I see what she spends and she sees what I spend.

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This

We have 2 checking and multiple savings accounts. Only reason we have 2 checking accounts is because my divorce lawyer advised we keep her payroll direct deposits in a separate account.

We both have access to all accounts

Same account for us. Having separate accounts in a marriage is just weird. I know a few people that have it though. Most of them that do are Millennials, not really bashing the generation, just the facts of it.

Gen X people I know doing it are usually on marriage number 2.

I was talking to one woman at Halloween who wanted her husband to take her car, so he could make the payments from his account. My wife and I were just


There is no reason for separate accounts in a real marriage. With the exception being self-employment/taxes simplicity.