[bradknowles]

I met the woman who is now my wife back when I was working at AOL in the mid-90s. She was working as a lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission. One year I got a big payout from cashing in stock options, and that ended up going to pay off her student loans. But except for that year, she has always made more money than I have -- for most of that time, if you compare her worst year against my best one, she still made like 3x what I made.

We have one main account we both use, and we make sure it's always got enough money in it that we don't have to worry about accidentally bouncing a check. We have set limits on how much either of us can spend without talking to the other person. And we don't really fight over money.