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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].

We're a couple with children and we have separate accounts and a joint mortgage account to which we used to contribute both but now DH contributes while I use my account to pay for the daycare. We still do the financial planning together, aka you pay for x, y, z from your account, I pay for a, b and c from mine and I put this into savings and you put that into savings, but we have separate accounts. We use the joint account for mortgage and utilities rather than small things . If I / DH put an exceptionally large purchase on a credit card, the other 'chips in' to pay it off at the end of the month.  It balances itself out. Over the years there were times when I contributed a larger share of my salary at others it was DH.

Still, it never occurred to me to ask DH to 'reimburse' me for things. When my salary dropped, he just picked up larger share of the expenses. [/quote]

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