We live in DH house so I pay every other grocery bill, half utilities. I do all housework and most cooking. I cover all my kids expenses.

in the beginning, i made a substantial amount more than dh...... so i paid 1/2 the mortgage, groceries & utilities, my truck, insurance, etc..... things have changed and we now work together making quite a bit less, but we are evolving as a married couple....... i pay all the bills from our account, if we're short i pull it out of my savings.... it just seems to work for us.... he got so burned in his 1st marriage over finances, yet he trusts me 100% to handle finances....if he wants something >$200 or me -- we check with each other first..... i can honestly say we have never fought over money....... just over the skids and bm or mil on occasion..... that's why it's hard for me to not think the skids are our only problem.... the mil and bm fights stem from skids, too...... i think they are the root of all evil in mine & dhs relationship!

DH pays CS which is 268 a month. I pay him rent, but he does as well, but he pays about 150 more than I do in rent, so i take care of the electric and I pay for our phones. He pays for his insurance and car payment, I pay for my insurance and car payment as well. He pays for the internet service. We dont have cable because we are never home. and even though we dont have a joint banking account, if we want to spend more than 100 dollars on something nonessential we get the ok with each other first. I make about 200 more dollars than he does right now. Our groceries run about 100 every two weeks (its funny because it is almost ALWAYS 100. sometimes we are able to do less) so we both put in 50 for that.

We recieve CS for my BS, this adds up to about 4% of our household income at the moment which will drop further in the new financial year due to my benefits increasing (standard in Australia, with even working parents recieving some money) with me staying at home with our new baby. That said we usually don't recieve any money from BD and have to constantly be on the enforcing agencies back about collection.

I am the primary financial supporter in our household, I bring home almost double what DH does after he pays his CS, car note, insurance etc. We recently opened a joint account so we both put in and pay the household bills out of it, I put in 3/4 compared to his 1/4. But I look at it as, this is a marriage and we have to work together and support each other. One day when there is no CS and it comes retirement time, (he is a state employee) his retirement fund will be more than mine and he'll be helping support me. It's a team effort..

I won't say I am not sometimes miffed by it, especially when times are tight or my POS car is breaking down, but...I keep the end result in site and my fingers crossed...lol..

FDH and I make about the same amount, but after his car pymt, phone, insurance and CS he doesn't have much of anything left over. I'm stuck with not only my bills (car, phone, etc) but I am also responsible for pretty much all of rent and utilities. And he wonders why I get b*tchy about money, and why I tolerate ZERO favors that would benefit BM in any way!