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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Ambient1
There are really two issues here.
1. You want to try and evenly split the joint expenses as fairly as possible. In the end, the only difference between the two methods is accountability. In the method above, I can tell you that Person B paid $31.32 for their share of the cable.
2. The system above works for varying level of commitments.
When you first move in with someone, you usually don't rush to go and put all your money in joint accounts. And until there is a permanent commitment between the couple, I wouldn't expect my SO to give me money from their pocket to add to my personal spending money.
Hopefully all that changes over time, you get married or whatever. At that point, I really don't think it would be fair for one person to have more spending money, even if they do make more. At that time, things do get pooled together... it becomes "our" money.
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agreed when you are just talking girlfriend/boyfriend, but once it's spousal (married), according to all other legals, it's OUR. I totally understand the culpability and ability to show that you paid X% to contribute to whatever bill.
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