Partner feels financially insecure

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My partner has recently told me that because I earn a significant amount more than her she feels insecure when she thinks about if we ever did split up. I was wondering what you all think I could do to give her more security.

For context, I earn approx 3.5 times more and no DC currently. We have a deed of trust so she is entitled to 50% of house should we ever split 😟 and joint accounts and our own accounts for ‘fun money’ after bills etc.

I’m genuinely not sure what else I could do, but would welcome opinions 🙏

"Well if she has a child in future she will probably reduce her income, pension contributions etc during maternity and the women is often the one to drop down to part time at work, more likely to suffer with their career due to having a child and shes already on the lower pay"

@spinningaround72 yeah, and the OP is a woman

Thanks all, we had a good chat and took your advice on board. From now on, we will be ringfencing some of our ‘joint household income’ to set up savings for both me and her individually.

One of her main concerns was that ‘if anything did go wrong, especially if we have kids, she’d have no independent savings’ as reliant on my salary to fill the gap from expenses to ‘everything else’. I’ve said we will look at the household income as a whole and ensure she has a significant pot of savings herself and that I will put a % in earnings now in trust for any future children, that she will be entitled to.

Hope that’s the right thing to do, feel it is 👍