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From: barbaral@tekig1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: handling money
Message-ID: <1310@tekig1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Sep-83 11:32:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  8 11:32:52 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Sep-83 05:49:40 EDT
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I'm interested in knowing how 2 income couples handle their monetary
affairs.  Do you pool all of the income?  Do you split expenses down
the middle?  Do you divide expenses according to each person's percent
of the total income?  Does one person pay certain bills, and the
other person pay other expenses?  Do you have separate accounts, invest-
ments? 
I read that monetary affairs are one of the major subjects couples
fight about.  Talking to some of my friends who are recently married,
they agree that working out money problems was one of the most 
difficult parts of their marriage for the first year or two.