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Look at it this way.  Having both types of accounts accomplishes the same thing. You each know that a certain amount of your paychecks will be deposited in the joint account to cover household expenses and in the joint savings account to meet goals. What's left in the separate accounts is much less, and that's the"little fun" money for each person.

So the end result is the same, unless you ONLY have separate accounts and don't communicate at all.

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EXACTLY! We have to discuss exactly how much money is being transferred from our individual checking accounts into the joint account each month. We have to discuss how to pay if the joint account ends up short at the end of the month. We discuss if the joint account has some extra money that can be moved to savings.

It just means that the rest of our monies--outside of the big wad to pay household expenses--stays in each spouse's account to play with. Or save, as the case may be.

I feel like a lot of people in this thread don't grasp that there is a large space between fully merged and fully separate, and it's not an affront to God or the rest of the female population to have household finances configured that way.

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