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Ambient1, I am highly impressed... this sounds like something I would like to do, once I get to that point in a relationship.
Cyn, I'm glad to hear that Gilda's (and Ambient1's!) way is common among couples... I like it a lot and would like to have the discipline to do the same.
I think it's really important that people split joint expenses along percentage-earned lines, but that they both have the same limit on spending each month (even if what they buy is completely at the individual's discretion). To do it any other way would create a kind of hierarchy even within the marriage... of one partner being more poor or rich than the other, which I think would lead to certain dependancies/resentments. The point is to create equality despite having disparate incomes.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran
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