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How do you best manage your finances in a marriage without getting cucked?
Of course if you have a girlfriend just split it 50/50 but curious what married couples do if the woman is a stay at home mum with the kids? (Does part-time work or little online money making too of course).
Do you share an investment account together or have your own, do you transfer her a set amount from your pay every month to cover all the expenses and shit she buys? How do you split allocated "leisure spending" money between you? Whose account do you keep the savings in?
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>falling for the marriage scam
Just give her all your money because you're going to lose it all in the divorce anyway.
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You share all of your finances when you get married and you discuss it and your budget with your spouse.
If you don't like that are you don't trust the other person, then you shouldn't have gotten married to them to begin with.
You are legally one entity when you marry.
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>>1171111
just pay enough of the bills to where she has close to the same amount of "spending" money as you do. ie if she makes 3k a month and you make 5k and theres 3k of bills, you pay 2k, she pays 1k
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>>1171111
generally its just shared accounts, you and the wife decide on a busget (which includes leisure spending allotment) and you set an amount over which you need to dicsuss any purchase (say 300 bucks)
So, you communicate like adults and budget likewise.
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>>1171111
You put it in one account and give her unfettered access to it.
It's not technically your money anymore if you earned it after you got married. I'm sure you were already aware of this before you got married.
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>>1171111
>in a marriage
You already signed your financial independence away.
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>curious what married couples do if the woman is a stay at home mum with the kids?
Serious suggestion: You quantify how much the unpaid work at home is worth, usually by giving it an hourly rate based off the stay at home member's earning potential OR what it would cost for a maid to do it. The working partner than pays the at home partner for that work. Bills are split/negotiated after that.
My parents did this and I've never heard them fight over money. Mum's earning potential is actually more than Dad's (she's a doctor) so they would usually come to some sort of arrangement on the 'housekeeping' money. And sometimes Dad would be the one at home.
The house in in their joint name, but otherwise their finances are entirely separate.
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