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[quote=Anonymous]Title says it all.  DH is not good with money.  I manage most of the finances but he has three bills that I gave him to take care of and recently I found out that he has been letting them go unpaid for months and months.  Luckily our utilities have not been disconnected. He also mindlessly swipes the card/spends and can't tell me where the money went when asked. He really has to think hard about it and gets frustrated when he realizes he sucks with spending. No, it's not a gambling or addiction issue, I can see all purchases he makes, it's just him being unorganized and being a careless swiper and dumb things.  Right now we put all of our income into a joint account that the bills are paid from and then we just pay for whatever else we need.  We also have our own separate credit card accounts.  My CC's don't carry a balance and his are now all in the sock drawer because he ran them up on stupid items over the span of two years and had to get a consolidation loan to pay them off.  He swipes from the main expenses account, which I want to change. How can we overcome this glaring difference in money management styles and reduce arguments/frustration? [/quote]

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