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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
^^^I know people who live together (non-married) and have only one joint account, joint credit cards, and even joint cell phone plans. They even own their homes together.
That sort of rubs me the wrong way just because what if you break up? Sure marriages break up all the time, but at least then you can sort it out in divorce court legally. I've seen people get TOTALLY screwed by their exes because they broke up and had a joint credit card, home, etc.
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Live-in and I are planning on buying a home. We don't have credit cards together (and might not do that because of what happened with his parents when they divorced) but you can have a mortgage in both names which would require either the house be sold or your share bought out by whoever remains in the house. Which, when you think about it, is fair. Might be a strain, but it's fair.
Which would have to be sorted out legally, anyway.
I should add that I'm less concerned about my relationship not working out than some of my friends who are married are about their marriage, mostly because we've been together for longer than many of our married friends and any uncertainty in our relationship revolves around things that cause uncertainty in long marriages (what happens if one of us loses our job, what happens if one of our jobs transfer us, etc.) and we have contingency plans in place for that. We also have contingency plans for if we do break up, too (who moves out, who gets the animals, who takes what belongings including things we bought together). Sounds morbid but I'm a planner whose mom died and he's a planner whose parents got divorced so we planned a lot of that when we first moved in together as a way to protect ourselves and each other.
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