Do you have separate bank accounts or pool your money?

Sepeate accounts, he pays certain bills and I pay certain bills... it's worked for us, no complaints or fights.

Together. Being an accountant, I'm, well a little controlling when it comes to money (plus, I'm really good at managing it.) My husband, well, he would be okay with living in a card board box as long as it had the 60 inch TV. So, everything is together and he has little access to it. He has a credit card that is used for fuel only. We never fight about money. He never asks questions. He just knows he has a house, car, power, food, etc.

We have his, mine and ours. I pay all the recurring bills from 'ours'. We buy our 'own' stuff from our own accounts. Day to day stuff, who ever has the most $$ that day pays LoL.

My fiance and I each have our own savings account but joint checking to pay the bills--ever since we moved in together, we paid for everything together. Works well--no money fights. I do the budgeting and it all works out

Glad to hear that we are not outside the norm on this. My hubby and I function very well on our 2 separate accounts. I am a freelance designer, and he is an accountant for a country club. He pays the mortgage and keeps a savings account, I pay everything else. It has always worked for us so I suspect we will probably keep it this way. It's good to see it's working well for so many of you.

I do the budgeting and it all works out

this is so funny to me, because, despite my hubby being an accountant, I still do our main budget. He uses his check to pay the one big mortgage bill (and his gas) each month, and I pay all of the other static and non-static bills. It really works best for us too.

One account. I've always made more than my wife, and now that she is a stay at home mom, that goes double. Didn't seem fair to me to share everything else in life, but keep "my money" and "her money".

We never have had a disagreement about money, or what to buy, in twenty years of marriage.

Yep, one account. Been together 17 years & married for 15.5. Practically from the day he asked me to marry him we have had a joint account. Don't believe in his & hers! Works for us. :-D

Ditto except we've been married 18.5 years and didn't get a joint account until after we were married.

Separate, married. It works great. I always hear about couples fighting about money but we never do. It's pretty hard to fight about it when you are responsible for managing your own money.

My boyfriend and I have been living together nearly 3 years and we've always had separate accounts. Our only joint bills are rent and cell phones, so we just give each other 1 check a month to cover it. I imagine if we move or buy a house, we'll have 1 account for those bills. The main reason we have separate accounts is we both brought very different debts into the relationship. I have student loans, a new car, and lots of credit card debt from my foolish youth days so I need to take responsibility with my earnings to pay those off before we get married and buy a house. He doesn't have nearly as much as me.

Plus, I don't want to know what he spends on golf and he doesn't want to know what I spend at J Crew.

We have separate bank accounts and will for the foreseeable future, even if we get married. The only bills we split are rent and cell phones; he writes me a check for half of both when he has the money. He pays for cable, I pay for utilities. It ends up being approximately the same. I make almost three times more than he does, but he doesn't let me pay more because of his silly pride.

We'd be driving each other craaazy if we had one account. I know I'd constantly be overstepping and annoying him about taking out money for whatever. It's best we don't even go down that route.