how much should i pay my wife?

When I was in that situation, we drew up a budget together and divided areas of responsibility. Once a dollar value was set, I wrote her the check each month. She placed it in her account and administered it from there. It worked well. Naturally, the check covered her end of it "plus". The "plus" was her unrestricted spending money, which was about as much as I granted myself for misc. expenses and indulgences. cn

If you made 6 thousand a month put away four thousand a month for bills and a thousand each for spending money and savings.
What ever is left from the 4 thousand put into a savings acount.
Save all your spare change you and wife and take a nice trip with the money every year

Originally Posted by cannabineer

When I was in that situation, we drew up a budget together and divided areas of responsibility. Once a dollar value was set, I wrote her the check each month. She placed it in her account and administered it from there. It worked well. Naturally, the check covered her end of it "plus". The "plus" was her unrestricted spending money, which was about as much as I granted myself for misc. expenses and indulgences. cn

would you mind sharing the percentages? no worries if you don't.

Originally Posted by FootballFirst

would you mind sharing the percentages? no worries if you don't.

I have trouble remembering. That was when i had a job and a wife. cn

Originally Posted by FootballFirst

i was thinking about my girlfriend and suppose she ends up being my wife. she has no desire to work and would prefer to stay at home and raise children. i have no problem with this. she also likes money, like most of us, and would like her fair share of my earnings. for some reason she like to keep "her" money separate from "my" money and she wants her own cut to do whatever she want to. we have discussed it recently and we both agreed it would ned to be worked out before we would get married.m in your opinion, how much should she get? how much should i get? and how much should be kept as common money/investments/retirement...etc?

How ever you decide to settle it be sure it gets settled.

Money is one topic in a relationship/marriage that will always be a topic of conversation.

it all depends on your finances. if you are just getting by then you can't give her as much. or if you are saving for a new house or car or something. it varies with every situation. i don't think you can put a percentage on it. when you start having kids and needing to save for college and pay life insurance premiums then your discretionary income will drop. figure out what you will be spending every month; then what you should be saving every month. then give her 75% of what is left over cause you won't need it anyway.

Easy all bills totalled each month. Whatevers left split it. Don't forget gas and food.

It should be based on tips.