Do you believe home-stay-moms should receive a percentage from hubby`s income?

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   pearlmacbposted 11 years ago

   Do you believe home-stay-moms should receive a percentage from hubby`s income?
   
   

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   JThomp42posted 11 years ago

   I would think it to be a partnership. Whatever is mine is hers as well.

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      pearlmacbposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Partnership indeed. I was recently told by a mom that she recieves on monthly basis-1,000 play-money, which raised my curiousity...

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      JThomp42posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      That sounds pretty good.

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   lburmasterposted 11 years ago

   Not really, but that should be included in the expenses. Otherwise, it seems a little sneaky that she should. What happened in my family, my mom would go to the bank, get a bunch of bills and organize them in her little planner. My mother controlled the money for groceries, extra activities, clothes, hair cuts, etc. Dad would control the bills and the gas debit account. He had to ask mom for food money or bills to go to the theater with the kids.

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   bobbyandbeansposted 11 years ago

   Doesn't she receive that percentage in the form of food, clothes, and housing? 
   
   I've always thought marriage was 50/50 with no one person having more control or more access to anything than the other.  If he spends "X" amount of dollars on restoring a new hot rod in the garage or on fishing poles or whatever, she can spend that same "X" amount on her new hobbies, new clothes, whatever.  In the same way, she needs to make sure his needs are being taken care of and that the money isn't just going to the kids or what she thinks is needed around the house. 
   
   Giving a woman an actual handout of money makes her seem like an employee or something worse, not a life partner.

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   duffsmomposted 11 years ago

   No, not really. I was a stay at home mom and frankly I handled all the money. It was never a his versus mine. We are a team, partners...what one gets we automatically want to share with the other one.

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   ThePracticalMommyposted 11 years ago

   Like almost everyone else has said, the marriage should be a partnership and everything is spent as a team. In my house, my 'income' is getting to stay home with my children instead of being away from them at work. We use our money to pay our bills and take care of the kids. If we ever need anything for ourselves, we always discuss it before spending the money. It's almost never an issue since we work as a team to keep our family going.

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