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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was 14:35.   I think the most generous interpretation is that her boyfriend heard or read something about prenups and feels like it is necessary -- again being either unaware or ignorant of the thousands and thousands of legal decisions already issued which address the issue in a relatively fair way.   A more troubling interpretation is that he is selfish with money.    [/quote]

I tend to agree with this PP and think some of the other posters are getting a little overheated, especially with such a limited amount of info as you've given here, OP. Yeah, the request for a prenup could be coming from some evil desire to screw you over for the divorce he's already planning for years down the road after you've helped to pay for his grad school, but as we are not living in a soap opera it seems unlikely. My now-DH also mentioned wanting a prenup before we married and we were in almost exactly the same situation as you are now. He had bought a home before I met him and I was coming in with some student loans and made less than he did at the time, though we had already pooled our finances and so we were both paying into the mortgage and the student loans at that point. I definitely had the impression it was just something he'd heard somewhere and thought should be done rather than anything nefarious.

I told him we could if he really wanted to though I thought it was unnecessary - my attitude was exactly yours, I genuinely didn't care, agreed it was his money, just thought it was more hassle than it would be worth to either of us long-term - and left it in his court. Never heard a thing about it again. Whether he ever really wanted to do it at all, whether me being willing to do it set at rest any vague concerns he had, or whether he decided it was going to be more expensive than it was worth I don't know, but I really do think it was just something he heard somewhere and thought was something lots of people did as part of the getting-married process. He's an engineer so very process-oriented. :) Now been married almost 10 years and no problems with shared finances. So unless your instincts are telling you there is more to this than it appears on its face, I wouldn't worry about it.[/quote]

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