[MysticCat]

^^^ Still have to disagree with you. If you and your significant other have such different approaches to finance and you don't figure it out and work it out prior to marriage, the real problem is not that you have different financial styles, but that you failed to communicate openly and honestly about whether your different financial styles could find a compromise or otherwise co-habitate.

Sure, sometimes you get married with your eyes as open as you though they could be, and then you get a financial surprise. But I still say that, more often than not, good communication can lead to some kind of solution, even if its completely separate finances. I know plenty of couples who do that.