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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are you, what kind of resources are you talking about, and does one or both of you have some separate financial or caregiving obligation that predates your marriage (eg, kids elsewhwere, etc).

If you're relatively young, no other entanglements, merge them. You can decide that each has a small side account with some "fun money" that you don't want the other to see and is not the other person's business what you do with. But other than that, don't create headaches.

Or, if you're just not that sure about the other person and don't believe them to be trustworthy, divorce now and get a jump on things. [/quote]

Totally agree. This sounds like what we did before we got married, but once we were married we each kept a separate account with a small "allowance" (couple hundred bucks a month) and everything else went to joint. If you have a separate obligation, you could add that to your personal account. But otherwise, contributing according to your relative salaries is setting you up to nickel and dime everything.

Been married almost 15 years with this system, income has tripled since then, and we NEVER fight about money. [/quote]

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