My husband and I kept our finances separate after marriage. It worked well — and then, we had a baby.
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For years, my husband and I kept most of our money in separate accounts. It worked at first, but when we had a baby, things started to feel less fair.
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Having a baby pushed my husband and me to rethink how we handle money.Rebecca StrongI've always valued independence and found comfort in keeping my finances separate from my husband's.When we had a baby, though, our setup started to feel less and less fair.We agreed to combine most of our money, and it's helped us feel like a team.Maybe it's because I'm an only child raised by a single mother, but I've always valued independence.I walked down the aisle alone. I'll happily go out to dinner or a movie by myself. When faced with a problem, my instinct is to wrestle with it myself rather than ask for help. (I'm working on that one.) And when my husband and I got married, I was adamant about keeping our finances separate.For years, this arrangement worked beautifully. But after we had a baby in the summer of last year, I began to wonder whether the financial independence I'd clung to was actually working against us.Keeping our finances separate gave me a sense of freedomWe opened a joint…
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