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Originally Posted by 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.
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That's what I'm saying, I don't think this is always something you CAN work out or change about yourself, anymore than you can change the color of your eyes. The separate accounts thing has its merit, yes, but you can't tell me that if a hubby overspent and had creditors that his wife wouldn't try to help him in some way.
You can think you're "communicating" and talk about it and work out a plan...but that can go right out the window. Like I said, too many people think "if we talk it out and love each other enough we can make it work" and that's just not always the case, even if both parties really want to and really try. I feel the same way about sex, FWIW.
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