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We pool our money, too, to cover household expenses - including 401K contributions and health care premiums.  We just do it in a way that is commensurate with our salaries.  This leaves each of us with a comfortable amount of personal money with which to buy a new pair of shoes, or pants, or morning lattes, or drinks or dinner with friends. Our paychecks are deposited into our personal accounts and then we transfer agreed upon amounts every pay period into our joint account.  There's more than one way to skin this cat.[/quote]

OP here - this is what we do, and I am not morally conflicted about not totally pooling everything.  Just that the contributions are not commensurate with earnings.  There are some ways in which DH (or his job) contribute - such as health care premiums for stellar care, and I don't do anything.  The biggest discrepency is vacations, which I cannot afford, so he pays for them.  For those looking to say he is a total jerk, that's what I get for posting.

As an aside, I think it is interesting how most assume that even though most people spend money commensurate with what they make, everyone does.  Neither of us is interested in profligate lifestyles.  I think the biggest problems are (a) fairness and (b) the savings that I have not accrued over the life of the marriage.[/quote]

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