Quote Originally Posted by Jer View Post
Keep them separate even then. It's really easy to split the cost of things you both share but trying to agree on items that are just for one of you when you're money is combined is the type of thing that ruins marriages. My buddy and his wife combined their accounts and he was paying off her college bills from before they were even together and when it came time for a Tiger Woods video game to come out that we played ALL the time she wouldn't let him buy it. $60. Her college loans and debt are all paid off and they're no longer together. He never did get that $60 video game.
Totally disagree! He just married the wrong person. I won't say marriage is easy, it is not, but when you set up your marriage to fail with the back door escape clause, well, you kind of get what you deserve. If she is not worth combining funds with, she is not worth having children with. It is not the money that causes any marriage to fail, it is the selfishness exhibited only by the fight over money.