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What should I expect from my partner moneywise? HELP!

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RL35 · 08/09/2006 09:08

Hi, this is an ongoing debate/argument/row in our house and it is really getting me down and i am thinking of just leaving with my daughter.
I left a really good job to move to my partners part of the world and have a baby - all happened very quickly. She is now nearly 3 and has been in nursery since she was 6 months old.
I have had 3 part time jobs here and now settled in an OK one. I get paid £1000 a month for 3 days - once I have paid the nursery, my car insurance, mobile bill, home phone bill, and a few other othings I have less than £62.00 a week for food, my daughter, me, extras (birthdays etc, clothes and so on...
We live in my partners flat that he owns, he still drives the same car, (a v.expensive one), has the same job (owns his own company), I am always overdrawn and he cannot understand why...we are arguing so much he gets so angry and starts calling me all the names under the sun. He hardly ever gives me money and thinks as he pays the mortgage and house bills thats it..(its his house) - I look after our daughter 99% of the time with no help..
Any ideas? X

OP posts:
morningpaper · 12/09/2006 20:26

Agree 100% with Rookiemum - this is what we do

tribpot · 12/09/2006 20:33

Maybe best to talk from a position of strength, i.e. knowledge? Draw up a budget as best you can, based on what you know he is paying out as well as what you are paying out. Perhaps it will help to keep the discussion business-like and numbers-focused rather than (quite justifiably in my view) "I take care of your child so you can work full-time and earn lots of cash".

My dh is a SAHD, I am the only wage-earner, although he has a rental income from the flat we used to live in - he bought it before we met. It's actually me who spends all the money because he is too ill to leave the house on his own, so his spending opportunities are limited (and he doesn't buy things online, mainly because he can't remember our address for delivery/billing).

When we lived in my dh's flat, particularly once we had a baby, I did not regard it as 'his' flat but ours, and there was no mortgage so it wasn't even like I was contributing to it that way. We paid all bills between the two of us, though. But ultimately it doesn't need to be a question of splitting each bill but rather you, the family, paying your bills and then having a fair amount left over for yourselves. Food is a bill as much as anything else.

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