financial issues

We pool our money. We believe a marriage is the joining of everything. We make little purchases without consulting each other but anything of consequence is a joint decision. We sit down periodically to go over our monthly expenses and if we experience any difficulty (quite often it seems lately) we decide together how to handle it best. Not hiding from the family finances from each other helps with trust and keeping the stress shared between us.

it's hard to give tips on resolving issues if you don't say what the issues are. The best thing is to write out a budget and stick to it. My husband and I have our own separate accoutns but the main account is our joint account, every time we get paid I put in 40% of what we need to make ends meet and he puts in 60% we need to make ends meet. He makes more money than me.