If you want a happy marriage, you must combine finances and act as a joined pair toward goals. Engaging in protective behaviors like having separate accounts increases the odds of money fights and divorce. Want a blow up? Get into the first argument over how to split baby expenses.
In Japan, very traditional, men work, make the money, give money to wife. ...wife takes care of all things domestic. ..and the wife then gives the man a allowance. ...many times my salaryman friends would borrow money mid month because they’d spend their allowance too quickly. ......in Japan, the men think they rule. ....only because the women let them think that. ...it works well for them. ...