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Like I said, if I wanted the arrangement you have I wouldn't have gotten married, we would have stayed cohabiting people. There is nothing wrong with that, I have a good friend he and his girlfriend have lived together for 20 years and aren't married. Their life even, they don't "sell" things to each other or "buy" things from each other.
Those folks are likely considered married under common-law rules.
Of all this discussion on marriage and finances, perhaps we should spend a moment to reflect on the simple value many dual-income married families get to enjoy -- higher taxes!
From my original comment on page 1 and monitoring throughout the rest of the pages, I thought this discussion was going to take a wrong turn for the worse like a ticking time bomb (like others posts in the past). Glad it didn't and indeed it is very amusing. If spiveyb is happy, then thats good enough for me.
Definitely happy. I think that we have a normal system in place to where we have a joint account for the joint finances, and personal account for personal use and for luxury things. Simple system for us and works just fine. But all this was for nothing because my wife wants the IS now lol. But I told her if she changed her mind, the GS is still available at a cheaper price than the IS lololol... figured you guys would've loved that... 😄
Those folks are likely considered married under common-law rules.
Of all this discussion on marriage and finances, perhaps we should spend a moment to reflect on the simple value many dual-income married families get to enjoy -- higher taxes!
Vast majority of states no longer have an automatic "common law" marriage. Maryland where we live does not.
