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Originally Posted by curves2000
Couple #1: Lower income spouse (male) is complaining about the state of his car which is very poor, meanwhile the higher income spouse (female) drives a luxury car and has sizable assets and flat out says "Well, he can't afford a new car, so what should I do about it?"
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This is exactly where they lose me. I just couldn't see this attitude sliding into my marriage in a healthy way.
Things will come up that are just hard to square if you are trying to divide expenses.
Our best example is probably my pension, I have a fairly generous employer match offer and my wife is self employed. So all of our fixed monthly savings are going into my pension, while our net incomes are almost the same, she takes home more.
Not having to balance these things that actually become more complicated than you would expect really isn't worth the effort when I my wife and i are not going to deny eachothers needs.