[lrjohnson]

My partner of 6 years and I keep our finances separate. We each pay 1/2 the bills; grocery, rent, utilities. Not much in the way of larger purchases; if we buy a 20 coffee table we split it, but if we were to buy a larger piece of furniture one of us would buy and own it. This works well for us. We both bank at same place, and cant transfer money between accounts, so for example he'll say, "I paid the $200 PG&E bill and $30 in groceries" and I'll transfer him $115. (We have each others passwords so we could transfer without telling the other person, but we always ask.) We've recently split who is in charge of bills; for a while, I tracked, paid, and got reimbursed-now he's doing it. Gives me a break, plus he felt for his own sake he wanted the practice.