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Joint and Separate Money Series: Odds and Ends

May 21st, 2012 | 11 Comments

Joint and Separate Money Series: Odds and Ends

This is the third installment of a series probing the issue of joint vs. separate money in marital and cohabiting relationships, inspired by the great discussion in the comments of my slippery slope of separate money post.  In each post in this series, I review the methodology and major findings of a paper in the field and then discuss how my husband and I fit into the results.  I encourage you to share your reactions to the … Read entire article »

Filed under: marriage, the literature

Joint and Separate Money Series: Changes During the First Year of Marriage

May 7th, 2012 | 31 Comments

Joint and Separate Money Series: Changes During the First Year of Marriage

This is the first installment of a series probing the issue of joint vs. separate money in marital and cohabiting relationships, inspired by the great discussion in the comments of my slippery slope of separate money post.  In each post in this series, I review the methodology and major findings of a paper in the field and then discuss how my husband and I fit into the results.  I encourage you to share your reactions … Read entire article »

Filed under: marriage, the literature

Proposed Series: Literature Review of Joint and Separate Accounts

April 30th, 2012 | 28 Comments

Proposed Series: Literature Review of Joint and Separate Accounts

  During a conversation with my officemate about the diversity of comments concerning joint and separate money within marriage, she told me that during college she had read a sociology paper on the ideal number of accounts for a married couple (as she recalled, 5).  It had not occurred to me that such topics would have been studied by researchers but I was immediately excited about the prospect of learning about such work.  During college I … Read entire article »

Filed under: budgeting, marriage, the literature

The Slippery Slope of Separate Money

April 20th, 2012 | 92 Comments

The Slippery Slope of Separate Money

One of the basic rules of marriage that we were introduced to in premarital counseling: Don’t keep track.  Life is not 50:50, nor should it be.  While both spouses should contribute to a marriage and household, it’s both fruitless and fodder for fights to try to make everything fair and even.   At the moment, we keep our finances completely joint.  We still have some leftover separate accounts, but all of our functioning money is joint.  And … Read entire article »

Filed under: budgeting, marriage, personal, spending, targeted savings