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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that this isn't about money. When we moved in together, we established a joint account from which we paid all common expenses, including fun things. Medical expenses and the like came out of our individual accounts. The amount we deposited was based on percentage of salary and I contributed significantly more. When it was clear we were on the path to marriage, we changed it so that we deposited all our money in there except for $X which remained in our individual accounts. We had the same amount of money to spend on whatever we wanted. We defined in advance what came out of which account. Things like lunch at work, etc. definitely came out of individual accounts. I still make signficantly more than DH. If you're in a marriage, it seems to me that you should both have the same amount of 'fun' money. One spouse shouldn't be limited because he/she makes less than the other. It's a marriage, after all.[/quote]
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