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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are going to need to take a hard look at your banking set up now that you have a child. Who's paying for all of the baby basic expenses, medical bills, daycare, child enrichment classes & activities? The current system you have only works for couples without children, I'm a financial advisor so I've seen it all.  [/quote]

I think it's "fair" ask for your savings to be bolstered by whatever you would have put in while working, assuming he covered all the household expenses during that time.

In the long-term, though, you need to change your overall arrangement or things will quickly go to hell while you are tired, stressed, and paying for a child.

DH and I had a similar arrangement to yours when we were dating and renting together, and shifted to the inverse when we got married and bought a house.  The inverse, for us, was that all money (conceptually) goes into a shared account and individual savings and personal spending money comes back out into individual accounts.  Of course you can tweak the model, but we found it far less stressful to have the bulk of the money shared and not having to be discussing each thing we bought or asking for half of whatever expense came up or constantly revisiting whether our shared contributions were enough or arguing over whether coffee on the way to work was a house expense, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.[/quote]

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