Originally Posted by
d2create
Hey, I never said
I was buying it.
Separate finances = a happy marriage!
Basically she's just looking for something that is comparable to my Riv in terms of style of bike. In other words, an all-arounder... good for the street, paved trails, sidewalk, hard packed dirt, commuter style riding (but she won't actually be commuting). Right now she either has to take her Bianchi Milano which is slow and more geared towards neighborhood casual riding, or her cannondale synapse which is more for racing style... too twitchy, fast and limited. And she wants cheap cause she's not really IN to cycling like I am. Something like a Riv would honestly go to waste on her at this point.
Right, she's not IN to cycling so she only has a Bianchi and a Synapse. I'd guess she's pretty broke from the things she IS IN to.
Anyway, it's pretty wild how polarizing the concept of separate vs. combined finances in marriage is. My wife and her best friend are having an ongoing argument about this at the moment; my wife acts like her friend and hubby are nuts b/c they run their life like a business, "buy each other out" of houses they own together, keep everything separate. Whereas we've only had joint accounts of every sort since the day we moved in together oh those many years ago. ;p
My opinion? I ain't got one. I'm too lazy and disorganized to keep the books, so she's welcome to all the money as long as I never have to balance a checkbook.
