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Given that money is one of the leading causes of divorce, keeping your income a secret is guaranteed to cause problems. I would have to ask why you would marry a person whom you can't even trust with your income?
If there's no trust, there's no relationship.
Exactly! I know a guy through my sister whose first wife left him and cleaned out their bank accounts. His second wife is paying for that because he won't let her have access to any bank accounts or credit cards and strongly discourages her from working. He gives her an "allowance" each week.
How do you make a budget together or have financial goals with secrecy? I would seriously wonder what the hell was going on if my husband had become secretive about his income. If you don't share this information as a married couple you may as well be roommates who have sexual benefits.
If you can't tell you wife how much you make, she should not be your wife. It is her business because marriage is a partnership once your married your money is hers and hers is yours.
Just asking this question tells me, you are going to get a divorce, just head down to the lawyers office now and get it over with.
Just noticed it's the OP's first post. Probably the last we will ever see.
Not answering the loaded question in that poll. Ridiculous. If you can't trust someone with that basic info, you have no business being married.
Yeah, I didn't take the pool because both statements are ludicrous in my opinion. If those are the only two choices, this person doesn't need to be married.
I wish I could make this question not gender specific, but unfortunately with the way things are, I'm afraid it has to be.
Personally, I feel that keeping your income to yourself is the most common sense way, but each to their own.
What do you think? I've added a poll.
Are you for real? Given that it's your first post, likely not.
Marriage only works if you're all in, physically, intellectually, and financially. Only a total weasel would hold back basic stuff like this from his or her spouse.
If you don't trust your wife 100%, don't bother getting married. Good luck having any kind of happy relationship.
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