I always believed you are either all in or all out. separate accounts and separate things create issues more often than not. If it works for you great but know way way too many examples of how that turns to pot. one account and all cards on the tableWhy the separate accounts? Or why did the wife pay for the trip?
Separate accounts: We both have hobbies and things that we want, that we feel shouldn’t be a burden to the other… When I buy gun stuff I use my account, when she buys clothes/shoes/ decorations, she uses her account. It’s a pretty fair way of doing things if you ask me.
She paid for the trip: it was a gift from her to me for my 30th birthday.