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[quote=Anonymous]OP, the only way I can see this working is if you and your DH pay household expenses commensurate with your income.  So if you are bringing in 40% of the total household income, you pay 40% of the expenses (picking and choosing whichever ones add to that).  It sounds like you may have been following this formula until you reduced your salary and your DH is now refusing to make the necessary adjustment.  If you're bringing in 25% of the total household income but still paying (hypothetically) 40% of expenses, that seems patently unfair to me.  It means you are penny-pinching, or even going into debt, while he has plenty of disposable income to spend as he chooses.

I don't necessarily think there's anything inherently wrong with separate finances, as long as both parties play fair.  Your DH is not playing fair.  Has he explained why is he refusing to shift the burden of spending off of you now that you are bringing in less money?  To me that is the key question.  [/quote]

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