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Put my notice in. I’m finally leaving PA🎉🎉🎊
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We did a lot of Venmo back and forth. We also split based off of who made what. So since my partner made significantly more, he covered the rent and I covered utilities, groceries, and household stuff.
Joint account. Only deposited money for bills. Set up payments to auto pay. No muss. No fuss.
Joint account, where we each pay 50/50. It’s worked for us for 23 years, married 13, owned 2 houses and across 4 households. We may change the allocation (60/40 or 70/30 or similar) if we ever had kids, especially as he’s likely going to be the more active parent while I will likely earn more.
I’ve done both. Obviously there are risks of a joint account but it does make it quite a bit easier.
We did a lot of Venmo and then set up a joint checking and savings account after we got married.
Thanks for all the responses, everyone! Looks like no one has shared horror stories one way or the other, so we can just do what’s best for us and keep open lines of communication
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We take turns, pay a few days early, and forward each other the receipts so we know the other person didn’t forget.
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We don’t have rent (I own our house), but I pay my mortgage and he pays all the bills/groceries/etc. And we assume it evens out in the wash. It also has been way easier than keeping up with constantly venmoing each other.
Research shows living together not the best indicator of a future success in marriage. Go for the gold.
I’ve seen those stats, but not with recent numbers. One potential explanation is that when living together before marriage was more socially taboo, those who did so needed to move in together for financial reasons (one rent payment instead of two). Financial instability is a significant indicator of marital stress and divorce. I’d be curious to see a more recent study.
Joint account that we contributed to based on income that covered shared expenses, rest of our $ was separate