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To ask for a contribution from DH for being at home with DD aaaaall summer

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absopugginglutely · 12/08/2019 15:13

I am a part time teacher and have been on summer break for the past 4 weeks.
In that time, I have been trying to be thrifty but even trips to the library, to meet her little friends and their mums in cafes, buying her the odd item of clothing when the heat wave struck, swimming, visiting, costs money.
DH is at work mon-thurs and tends not to take her swimming/ do anything that costs money with her.
I find that it’s always me driving her here and there- parks, libraries etc and I’m worse off at the end of the summer and he isn’t affected at all.
At the moment we split all the household costs proportionally to our respective earnings apart from the shopping which is 50:50

AIBU to outline this for him so he can contribute to DDs activities? Is this fair?

Thanks for reading.

OP posts:
Adversecamber22 · 13/08/2019 10:07

We have separate accounts and always have at my instigation. We have a state of the nation meeting about finances once a year. Adjustments have been made throughout our two decades together but we always had similar levels left over to spend and invest. It can work for some couples but they should always have similar amounts left. If your down to needing a tenner for kids activities then it can’t work.

I like the total freedom of doing what I want. We both started investing as teenagers many years before we met.

I remember reading a paper when doing research about educational outcomes and income about women in poverty within relationships where the actual income of the household was decent. It’s very common unfortunately.

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