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| Thu, 03-25-2004 - 11:10am |
I was reading another board about sneaking purchases past their husband's. I know I use to sneak before we started doing our finances together. I would actually come home during lunch to get the mail or unload packages. I was pitiful. Even now, I will bring things in the house and wince thinking how upset Devin would be with me.
So, have you ever hid purchases or not told your DH the whole picture of your finances? We use to horrible fights about finances. I would do the weekly budget and e-mail him it. We would discuss it and everything was fine. Then, he would tell me two days later that he was doing a marathon that cost $75.00. I had to actually ask him before we did the budget-Do you have any marathons? Do you need shoes? Do you have any equipment you need? Can you tell I

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Thanks Lauren, you said it so much better than I did.
PumpkinAngel
Can you think of a particular thread where we went down this road before? I'm trying hard to think of instances where posters have agreed with what you are saying and I am coming up blank. (Except for the "My kid would be a lot thinner because we wouldn't have any food" stance.)
I suppose if I WOH, my kids would not be hip to my whole ambivalence about housekeeping. Not sure how that would affect them. Maybe they'd grow up to think I didn't mind housework!
Hollie
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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
I've seen it over and over. I have seen, and maybe this is what you're thinking of, instances, lots of them, where WOHMs claim that in the end it makes no difference. In the end, we have responsible, mature, independent, happy young adults, whether we SAH or WOH.
But as to their daily lives? As they're growing up? Yeah, they'd be different. But those different paths lead to the same place.
Hollie
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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
What is happening now that is funny is that some people think they are twins.
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