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For Love and/or Money: Financial Autonomy in Marriage | Messy Matters

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Prescript: We realize how crazy this all sounds! Nonetheless, we’re perfectly serious, and do actually pay each other to put our kids to bed and whatnot. We think we have quite clever mechanisms for deciding who does what and keeping things exquisitely fair, efficient, and resentment-free. And separate finances — i.e., financial autonomy — is a prerequisite. We tried it with our own fiat currency — yootles — and that didn’t work so now we just use dollars. [1] Some of this bears uncomfortable resemblance to the kinds of things two raving Libertarian nutjobs [2] would say. (It’s not like that, baby, we swear it.) Nonetheless, this being the single most demanded article by you, Dear Readers, we are finally caving to the pressure.

For Love and/or Money: Financial Autonomy in Marriage | Messy Matters Messy Matters Bring your own data << Lies, Damned Lies, Rape, and Statistics This is Viral >> For Love and/or Money: Financial Autonomy in Marriage Saturday, April 13, 2013 By Bethany Soule This is a guest post by Bethany Soule with assistance from Daniel Reeves . Prescript: We realize how crazy this all sounds! Nonetheless, we&#8217;re perfectly serious, and do actually pay each other to put our kids to bed and whatnot. We think we have quite clever mechanisms for deciding who does what and keeping things exquisitely fair,

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