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by account-5 1398 days ago
I find the whole married with joint account only, and the they have their bills and I have mine weird.

We have a joint account where all our bills come out of. We each pay in enough money to cover those bills. Anything left over, in our personal accounts, we can spend as we see fit.

No theirs/mine bills and with separate accounts. It leads to no arguments, recriminations, or jealously. I don't particularly care my wife is more senior, earns more, and has way more personal money than me (I come from a very poor family and any money I've accrued is down solely to me, she's money from her family). At no time do I think of her or my money as ours, I only care that our joint bills get paid and that we equally cover them.