A 30-year-old woman anonymously posted on Reddit, sharing her situation with her 32-year-old husband. The couple has been married for four months, with each earning their own income. She is a secretary, and her husband is a police officer. According to the woman, her husband’s spending habits do not match hers. Admittedly, he is terrible with budgeting and does not plan for tomorrow. He enjoys purchasing things without thinking about his account balance.
One day, the woman proposed to have a joint account with her spouse. Ideally, the husband and wife would have a joint account for savings and shared expenses, but her partner saw the resource as a double up in his salary. The husband started spending left and right, purchasing expensive items without first informing his wife. “It was just like grab money and go spend it,” the woman said. “Not okay because we have commitments.” When the woman talked to her husband, he admitted that having a joint account was a bad idea. He also defended himself, saying that part of the money in the account was his, so he did not need anyone’s permission to spend it. He told her: “Am I crazy to think that everyone should just be able to have their own money to spend regardless of [whether] they were married or not?