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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think OP has come back to tell us what her contribution to their household income is, and I think that is because OP doesn't have a job. OP, [b]if you're not contributing, then unless you are somehow seriously deprived of something (and it does not sound like you are), I don't think you get a say in how much you spend[/b]. If you were telling us that you needed a new car and DH wouldn't let you buy one, then that would be a different story, but a $1000/night a hotel vs. a $250/night hotel is not worth arguing over. A private ski instructor vs. time well spent with your children? Also not worth arguing over.

I say this as a wife who makes 3X as much as my husband and sits down and discusses all of our major expenses with him.[/quote]

The bolded statement is absurd.  If you're in a marriage, you both get a say in how much you spend (which might include having decided together that one person will handle it) or you don't have much of a marriage.  I could be similar to what you describe in that I make 800k+ and wife is a SAHM.  She absolutely has equal say (probably more say) in what we spend on cars, house, schools, clothes, vacations, everything.

Some things may not be worth arguing over, but it's not because the person who makes more money just gets to decide them and the other partner doesn't.[/quote]

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