Report Webpage

  • User Submitted Image
    Blessed be the fruit
    Joined dxpnet on November 05, 2015.
    Posted by _VirgoGent_
    I believe financial alignment is a must once the relationship is reaching the stage of marriage. Failure to have alignment in this area is one of the biggest reasons relationships/marriages fail. I need too know how the other person views personal finance and what their financial goals are. I'm a firm believer in living by a budget and knowing where every penny is spent.

    I too believe in having a joint account where all of our money is initially pooled. We will then pay our bills out of it. We'll also have a joint savings account for emergency funds and investment purposes. A certain percentage of our monthly income will go into that. I do not want our monthly expenses to ever exceed 50% of our income. I'd be most comfortable around no more than 30% .

    Once our necessities are taken care of along with our savings and investments, we'll split the left over as our walking around money, spend as you wish.


    Spoken like a true Virgo

    Except there was that one thread where Virgo ended up being one of the three signs with the most debt problem :p