When we first got married, we had the reverse of this. Both our incomes went into a joint operating account, and we each got an identical allowance paid out bi-weekly into our own separate accounts.
But after a few years of marriage we found it needlessly complicated and now we just have the operating account which we both can withdraw money from, along with various short and long term investment accounts which we both have to agree to pull money from. Perhaps it's because we've never really spent beyond our means that this hasn't caused any conflict in the past twenty years of marriage.
But after a few years of marriage we found it needlessly complicated and now we just have the operating account which we both can withdraw money from, along with various short and long term investment accounts which we both have to agree to pull money from. Perhaps it's because we've never really spent beyond our means that this hasn't caused any conflict in the past twenty years of marriage.