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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the PP that calculate contributions based on % of earnings...man that's tough.  You're a team right?  I'm assuming that when the high earner was interviewing for a higher paying job or hustling for that promotion, the spouse had to pick up the slack around the house.  Or they helped prep for said interviews/etc.

I don't think I could be with someone who believes their earnings are just theirs and they only need to put in just enough to joint acct to cover essentials.  But...to each their own. [/quote]

NP and we have a % of earnings type setup.  Generally speaking we both work normal hours and when one is doing house work / childcare the other is usually doing that too, no one is sitting on their a$$ while the other works.  If one of us has to work later or travel (rare) the other one covers it.  I would say our setup is much more of a team set up than a lot of the posts you read about in the relationship forums where one party or the other isn't pulling their weight.[/quote]

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