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Pozeidan t1_j9vi1eu wrote

Reply to comment by adunk9 in LPT: Maintain separate bank accounts when you get married by The_Stein244

We also have a huge discrepancy here, even bigger than yours. I probably net 3 times as much as she does. We budgeted accordingly. I put more than 5 times what she puts in the joint account, but we still have 50% ownership of the house on paper.

I still have more left for discretionary spending, but it's not that much. She still has way more discretionary money than she would have if we weren't a couple since her contribution to the joint account is fairly small.

We live a fairly frugal lifestyle so we're both comfortable with that.

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adunk9 t1_j9wgum5 wrote

Going to make sure she has ownership of the house/cars once we're married officially in a few months. Been living like we're married since we moved in together 3 years ago. Most of our monthly budget is being eaten up by trying to get out from the debt we both accrued from before we got together. But that's an "US" problem and we deal with it together.

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