Julia Carpenter

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Spending Limits Help Partners Avoid Money Conflicts · 27 Jul 2023 podcast

Things that don't need approval or discussion for the household, something like buying a new blender or – matched

Buying a piece of exercise equipment, things that won't break the bank, but also talking about them and getting them the sign off from both people would just sort of gum up the process or lead to one partner feeling restricted or somehow like held back. matched

Yes. matched

I spoke with one couple who quite literally describes themselves as the CFO and the CEO. matched

Him being the CFO, her being the CEO. matched

And in this case, she identifies CEO as chief entertainment officer. matched

That she's the one who plans the activities, who books the appointments, who schedules the programming. matched

And he's the one who looks at the budget and researches the big purchases and balances the spreadsheets. matched

And that together, that's how they run what they call their family business, which is just the maintenance of their household and the daily life. matched

There's a sense of autonomy and a sense of financial freedom that a lot of people have when they're single. matched

Even if it's a burden, spending on your own and managing your own life and all these other things that having a partner helps with, you still feel unrestricted. matched

You don't feel surveilled. matched

And you feel that your money is sort of your own. matched

When you are combining your financial life with a partner's, just by the very nature of it, you are sharing things. matched

There's more transparency. matched

But there's also more a sense of restriction for some people. matched

They feel like, oh, I can't buy my favorite kombucha every day because they'll see that I'm just spending $8 for no reason. matched

So the spending rules gives both people a no questions asked threshold under which you're allowed to do your thing. matched

I'm allowed to do my thing. matched

If it exceeds this, let's have a conversation. matched

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