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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the PPs. Don't offer this information. If you have any leftover shared accounts with the parents from HS or college, close those accounts. Make sure your husband is on board and isn't going to just divulge everything when you're not there.

My dad cares greatly about our financial stability, which I appreciate, but he expects to subsidize us, and give advice, more than we're comfortable with. Thankfully, he's respectful of my boundaries, so he's backed off, but I had to close out our lingering shared account that we opened together when I was 18. I'm the only one of my siblings who does my own taxes - my dad still goes my siblings' taxes, even for my brother who's married! And that same brother uses the shared account with our mother as his main account and he doesn't understand why his wife thinks it's weird. My parents know, down to the cent, how much each of the children make, their major investments - except for me. They also pay for my siblings' phone plans, car insurance, and paid for their health insurance until they were 26. If my siblings think the subsidy is worth it - good for them, but for my parents, they just thought it was normal and expected to have the same visibility into my finances. I gently, but consistently, made it clear that my husband & I have it covered. [/quote]

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