Who has access to the finances at home?

Do you take full control of the finances and making the budget? Do you and your partner sit down together and discuss the budget/finances? Or does your partner have full control and you have no access?

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I pay the bills!

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I control it he sends me all the money usually 😊

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My husband doesn’t wanna know anything about the money. He just wants to know if he can spend any and I tell him yes or no all he does is ask me if there’s money in which account, each account is for something different so he knows what he can spend money on.

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I take full control of everything. We have a joint checkings and savings account. I pay the bills w joint and put everything else into savings. Hes free to buy whatever lol but of course depending on the situation.

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I know zero about our bills, he gets paid, he pays everything. I just swipe the cards.

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I created a budget sheet and am the one who knows how to competently fill it out, but we sit together while I fill it out & we discuss money & finances together often.

We have a joint account & My partner is in charge of actually paying the bills

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I do the budget etc. but we both have access to all our money and talk to each other about big purchases outside of our norm before doing them

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We have joint accounts and personal accounts. All money goes into the joint accounts, and we each get a set ā€œallowance.ā€ He loves financial planning, so he sets up the annual budget and runs the spreadsheet, but we both have full access to all shared money.

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I’m the family CFO but he is the CEO so big decisions are run through him and day to day stuff is my domain

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I control it all. He doesn’t have a scooby what bills we pay, how much each is and when they need paying. Works for us he’s pretty useless at stuff like that

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I have access, but my husband takes care of the logistics of finances.

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If I don’t do it we’d be living under a bridge , but he does works his ass off . Just bad with finances

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I don’t want to know I am just free to swipe his card anytime for anything I don’t have to ask
As respect I do ask when it’s a big amount of money even though he won’t say no (well he knows I’m also reasonable)
He is not controlling, and if one day it would change I still have lots of money in my account from when I was working .
Also it won’t be always like that, for now our kids are young and I’m a SAHM (and I don’t want more mental load !!! Each their responsabilties) but when the kids will be back to work I will go back to work.
TBH I never saw myself being dƩpendant before meeting my husband, as my mom was financially controlled and it traumatized me.
But now Im in peace like that even though I still have this « and if? «  in my head, but I already want so down in many ways that I know I can go back from zero anyways

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I control everything. He barely even knows when he’s been paid before it’s split up among our various accounts šŸ˜†

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