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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just one person give me a thoughtful answer to the following:

Why should a woman contribute less than 50/50 to the expenses when both spouses work and contribute 50/50 to the household duties.  And this answer has to be something other than "because the man makes more" or one that relegates the woman to a veritable prostitute or surrogate i.e. the money is deserved because of her unique role in parenting.

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Well, in my marriage my husband has way more expensive taste in housing. We'd be living in a two-bedroom condo if it was up to me. He wants a four-bedroom townhouse. If we had the arrangement you had, there is no hell way I would contribute 50% of the mortgage of a townhouse I don't really want. My husband goes to Costco every Sunday and buys a bunch of crap that I don't want/need/use that he thinks are household expenses. In your arrangement, I'm not paying for that either. You could do this all day long, going back and forth which is why we don't approach things the way you do. I don't want to discourage my husband from buying his costco crap just because I don't want to use it. So we just pool everything and call it a marriage.[/quote]

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