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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH refuses to join our finances for reasons I don't want to discuss on a public forum. Everything is separate. I pay certain bills, he pays certain bills and this was fine with me until I "mommy tracked" which decreased my income significantly. This is our arrangement:

I pay: 
Childcare
Electricity
Cable
My student loans
Baby's diapers and other odds and ends

He pays:
Mortgage (modest)
Car payment
Health insurance
Groceries

This arrangement sounds fair on paper but not when you consider that I literally earn 1/5 of what he does at this point. I asked him to contribute half towards childcare expenses but he balked at the idea. Is there a way that I can make the separate finances more fair or do I just suck this up?

If you have separate finances, what works for you?[/quote]

How is he as a father OP? Why are you paying all of childcare and baby expenses? Is your name on the house? Did he want to have children? Was he on board with your change in income? Was there a discussion about it before you made the change? He seems hostile and resentful to me. [/quote]

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