So my husband and I have two children and put 55% of our income into a joint account to pay household bills, Rent, childcare etc. The remaining monies are our own to pay for things such as phone bills clothes etc.
I earn close to 10k more than my husband per year and he is now saying as I have had to reduce my hours (losing 5 hours per week) this is to be able to drop our children to school, that we should split any remaining monies down the middle.
Now Iam happy to still contribute the same amount to our shared account Even though I have had a drop in salary. I just don’t see why I should have to share my higher income i have a much more stressful job than my husband and feel I should reap the rewards of that.
Iam not sure if Iam being out of order but for the first 8 years he was on very little money and worked very little hours until around 18 months ago so I have always paid the lions share. So much so I could only afford to take 8 weeks maternity leave with our first child.