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Originally Posted by molson
I get that, there's nothing like digging out of a financial hole.
The wife getting you into debt thing is one of the things that scares me the most about marriage. I have no idea if you're talking about spending generally or a specific thing your wife did, but I get so stressed about handling my own financial affairs. That's good to a degree, it keeps me frugal and on top of things, but I can't imagine how I'd be able to hand over some control. I guess I could, but I'd have to be a pretty big budget-nazi from the beginning.
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My wife doesn't work and so and she was supposed to be in charge of the finances and other domestic issues. When I wanted to spend something significant I'd ask her if we had the money. She'd say yes. Ok, no problem - she knows the books.
I knew we had a little debt but once I finally got a look at the bills and found that number was about 5 or 10 times what I thought. It was staggering. Yeah, it caused major problems. So now I make sure I'm more involved with the finances because obviously she can't manage them solo.
Still, I've been married for well over 20 years now...so it's still been worth it.
